Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS WINTER, many poor Americans will not be able to afford one of the most basic of human needs: warmth. For old age pensioners struggling to survive on a monthly $300 Social Security check, this winter's heating bills, which will run well over their entire income, could lead to a choice between freezing and starving...
...FRIDAY AFTERNOON after a hectic week. You could hardly wait for the weekend, and your social schedule is booked. You want to unwind after the mental fatigue of attending classes and taking hourlies, so what do you do? You head for the JCR for milk and cookies...
MAINTAINING social events in the Houses was the main reason for happy hours, and the main reason why students are scrambling to find some way around the rules. It's not that difficult, because private parties are untouched by the rules, and in at least one House, the happy hours are being served there. And post-football game celebrations, invariably sanctioned by masters, draw crowds to huge House celebrations: Dunster's "zorbels" (otherwise known as a punch powerful enough to flatten Ali), a hot cider and rum at Winthrop and a BYOB bask at Mather. Other Houses are holding...
...majority of students, however, seem to think pumpkin carvings, ice cream orgies, donuts, cider and pinball go better with booze. It is basically an unhealthy attitude to believe any social function has to include booze, but the alcohol is just about the only ingredient to ensure a regular House turnout. Holding a weekly cider hour might go over in Tenafly but in Cambridge, weekly happy hours lubricate even the most trivial house functions. Alcohol is no doubt a social crutch, but it is also one ingredient most people in a House will draw around...
...Houses have reached an impasse. It may not be healthy--it's certainly not legal--to hold happy hours, but they are the one type of activity that will draw most House residents. To maintain House social life, students are searching for every loophole they can find to keep alcohol, and the masters, through creative enforcement of the ban on liquor, are coming as close to condoning the students as they can without defying the law. Ed King may be able to railroad the legislature; he has a long way to go before he can conquer Harvard...