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...Surprisingly, the committee’s recommendations signaled a shift away from some of the more hard-line policies of the past, placing a greater emphasis on safety, student participation, and educational initiatives. Recommendations included redefining the disciplinary duties of proctors and tutors so that they better supported student safety, creating more non-alcoholic social options for students, and better publicizing the college’s “amnesty” policy...
...forces undergraduates who want to drink to attend off-campus events in unsafe environments with unfamiliar people outside of the safety and care provided by our Houses.” Taken together with new policies for student groups, Petersen also claims that “both shift the social life on campus into hands of the privileged...
...Travia, however, dissents. “Our numbers so far haven’t reflected that shift,” he argues. “I think one of the key examples of that was the success of last year’s Harvard–Yale game.” Fewer students were arrested or drank themselves into the emergency room than in recent history, but the student body as a whole seemed underwhelmed by the tailgate as a social event...
...Israel, usually played in a sandy pit at a lot of Jewish Community Center camps.” Due to the lack of a pit at the Harvard Hillel, where the game was held, students instead lined up six folding tables on their sides to form a make-shift pit. “With each bounce, everyone says the word ga…ga…ga,” Levin-Gesundheit slowly enunciates, illustrating the suspense between bounces. After the third bounce, the game is a free-for-all, and Levin-Gesundheit briefly demonstrates the speedy footwork and hand...
...joined with administrative support to make substantive change. But the heart of the matter comes in considering the scope of what we have before us: addressing climate change will be a process different from any other we have faced as a generation or a globe; we must engage governments, shift economies, refocus sciences, and revolutionize industries...