Word: banning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start off a weekend. Gov. Edward J. King's election seemed to snarl that pattern, since King railroaded through the legislature the 20-year-old drinking age. However, most Harvard students found last spring that King's legal grip did not extend far into Harvard Houses. The ban on House happy hours decided by the House masters in April lasted for about a week--students and masters viewed each other with benign neglect...
NOBODY then should have been particularly surprised when the masters decided earlier this month that happy hours are really taboo. The question remaining is whether repeating the ban will have any more effect than the original one, and first indications demonstrate that this time the masters are a little more serious. They have protected themselves by saying the actual happy hours are too dangerous to hold. Alcohol at open parties has to be carefully regulated, in accordance with...
...compromise. Masters can throw parties with alcohol, even if students cannot, but the funds must come from the House entertainment budget and thus ultimately from the students' room charges. Increasing the entertainment budget to cover the booze the individual students would have bought for themselves before the ban is unfair to the teetotalling minority. Besides, alcohol is expensive; the masters could use their budget to reach many students more often if they were not burdened with a bar bill the size of the French war debt...
...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...
...Jesus had wanted women priests he would have chosen a female apostle. (Some Protestants who take the Bible literally and oppose the ordination of women cite the dictum in the First Epistle of Paul to Timothy that women should not have "authority" over men in the church.) The ban on women appears for Roman Catholicism to be mainly a question of custom and discipline rather than doctrine. If so, a Pope would be free to change the rule...