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...thinks that banning kegs will end drunkenness at the Yale game. But using that as an argument against the keg ban is like arguing that a 70 mph speed limit is pointless because fatal accidents happen at 50 mph too. Kegs are meant to be emptied; I doubt many half-full kegs get returned to the liquor stores after football weekends. It is easier to lose track of how much you have drunk if you are drinking from a keg. And the higher cost of canned beer than kegs, which has been used as an argument against...
...John Harvard Scholarships, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 has made a strong recommendation toward restoring the University’s academic integrity. Still, there is no reason to preserve these hollow awards in any form; the full Faculty should vote to abolish such pointless distinctions altogether...
...reliability in the poetic than the actual,” making poetry a source of strength through dire straits. Indeed, Heaney invokes T.S. Eliot’s conviction that “public activity is more of a drug than this solitary toil [of writing] that often seems so pointless...
...perhaps, the cheery truth—is that pressure here is entirely self-inflicted. It is perfectly possible to coast through, working very little and obtaining what, in pre-gender equality days, used to be called Gentleman’s Cs. Yet, to hear students stress and strain over pointless problem sets and redundant response papers, one would assume that Harvard demanded constant academic brilliance in order to remain within its exclusive ranks. Let’s destroy this canard once and for all: You do not need to work nearly as hard once you’re here...
...Wireless Ethernet] will be pointless if no one buys a card,” said Blaise P. Huguenin ’03, also of Leverett House. Huguenin owns a laptop but does not plan to purchase a wireless card...