Word: pubs
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...Harvard Pub Night is just one component of administrators’ recent efforts to diversify and expand on-campus social options for students...
Come 10 p.m., Loker Commons will be transformed from a little-used study space to a student-saloon-of-sorts in the first-ever Harvard Pub Night...
Advertisements for the event labeled it the “beginning of a new era,” and plans are already in the works for future pub nights...
...week by knocking back a glass of lager at the Bell Inn. The Nottingham University engineering student estimates he'll down eight or nine pints before night's end. That's what he says he puts away in his thrice-weekly sessions, which start at a pub around 9 p.m. and end at a club five or six hours later. "We definitely drink more" in Britain, he says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream...
...scene. But since restrictive licensing laws haven't stopped the problem, will loosening them make things worse? The Labour government says a "minority" of drinkers are causing the mayhem, and staggered closing hours will reduce the number of people - and brawls - on the streets. The British Beer and Pub Association, the trade group representing nearly 40,000 British bars, also blames a "minority" and says varied hours will help. "The information we've had from our members would seem to support the idea that we'd have reduced numbers of people on the street at the same time," says spokeswoman...