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While many Harvard tailgaters were carousing last Saturday in a Boston parking lot, nine sober students were waltzing and foxtrotting in an Ohio ballroom. Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance members garnered second and third places in team divisions at the USA National Dance Collegiate DanceSport Championships in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday. The event was held Saturday and Sunday, hosting students from 47 colleges and universities. It consisted of several divisions, including Team Match competitions in which several couples from each university competed against couples from other schools. The couples’ scores in each dance were combined to form the team?...
Drunk driving is certainly a scourge that endangers thousands of innocent bystanders annually. Nevertheless, we have to take a sober approach to the problem, lest we zealously impose unnecessary restrictions that infringe on individual privacy and assume guilt rather than innocence...
...much-quoted “alcohol-related” numbers are about as relevant to the problem of drunk driving as the ratio of cars to bumblebees. These numbers, rolled out by MADD like WWI howitzers, do not evaluate whether drinking actually contributed to the accident. So, if a sober driver hits a driver who had a beer at dinner, it is recorded as an “alcohol-related” accident. In fact, as noted by Radley Balko, a Cato Institute analyst, when the Los Angeles Times examined accident data in 2002, it found that only...
...police to address on a case-by-case basis, but we are living in a serious city with serious problems, and the occasional party with loud music and a little bit of (gasp!) underage drinking is not one of them. The real people in need of a dose of sober reality are not undergraduates trying to enjoy the occasional weekend but the Cambridge community leaders who have somehow gotten it into their heads that preventing Harvard students from having a good time is more important than preventing them from getting mugged at gunpoint...
Rather, we all need a sober self-examination—remember that much of the increased pressure for tailgate restrictions started when some idiotic Harvard students almost drank themselves to death—and an increased willingness to organize and improvise in the face of an indifferent administration and a hostile City of Boston. The administration has certainly been put in a tough spot by the hard-nosed BPD, which bears most of the responsibility for the new rules. Yet I find it exceedingly hard to believe that the wealthiest and most powerful university in the world couldn?...