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...piece, Lewis crafted a careful argument which pointed out that kegs often lead to overconsumption of alcohol and thus more alcohol poisoning relative to cans, because the quantity of beer consumed from a keg is difficult to track. He also pointed out that “the higher cost of canned beer than kegs is actually an argument in favor [of the ban],” because it could lead to the purchase of a smaller quantity of beer due to the higher cost...
...There is no reason to think that students faced with cans and hard liquor will favor the hard stuff while the same students faced with kegs and hard liquor would go for the beer,” Lewis wrote...
Lewis was right in that the ban of kegs did lead to less beer being readily available at the 2002 tailgate. That’s because instead of drinking from kegs, students opted for the next cheapest form of booze, which was not cans or bottles of beer, but hard alcohol. And the hard stuff is much more difficult to keep track of from the standpoint of quantity consumed than the beer distributed from kegs that Lewis was so concerned about...
What these restrictions will do is limit the amount of “soft” alcoholic beverages consumed at the tailgate even further, because underage fans will refrain from carrying around easily distinguishable cans and bottles of beer in favor of more easily concealable liquor. From an alcohol poisoning standpoint, that is a lethal blow, due to the relatively diluted nature of beer compared to hard alcohol. With the former, it takes a very concerted effort to become dangerously intoxicated, but with the latter, a simple miscalculation can punch your ticket...
...grant me the premise that students who want to drink, will drink and that you’d rather have those students drinking beer than hard liquor, then you should also agree that the College should be focusing more of its policy on promoting the consumption of beer over more potent forms of alcohol. And by promoting beer, I don’t mean selling off the sponsorship of the Harvard-Yale festivities to Miller Brewing Co., but rather avoiding policies which create inherent incentives for students to swap beer for hard liquor...