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Without a delicious abundance of keg beer to wash down our pre-game breakfast this Saturday, my budget-conscious friends and I have decided to bring two trusty alternatives out of retirement. After all, a handle of grandpa’s cough syrup and a case of some beasty brew will rev us up for this year’s beat down of Yale just as well as a few pints from the tap. But even if you decide not to drown a few million brain cells with the rest of us—and you can afford it, you?...
Unfortunately, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 sees our revelry a bit differently. Commercials blind us to “the real world of drunkenness,” he gently reminds us in his op-ed “Harvard in a Beer-Ad World,” and images of beautiful people with lips pressed against some frothy brew can seduce even the most critically-minded Harvard students. “The reality of heavy drinking,” he warns veteran lushes without a hint of irony, is one in which na?...
...this weekend will not prevent such tragedies, Lewis readily admits, but it will surely help, and he is baffled by the fact that so many students have argued to the contrary. HoCo chairs, the Undergraduate Council and The Crimson are so hypnotized by beer advertising, he seems to think, that they actually believe more hard liquor, suspicious punch bowls and inebriated treks across the river can counterbalance the risks of keg culture. They might as well argue against gravity before a committee of physicists. After years of experience policing kegs and seven Harvard-Yale games as Dean of the College...
Shot glasses reading “Give peace a shot” also sold quickly, as did “Party like it’s 1948” beer mugs—referring to the year Israel became a sovereign country. More than 30 shot glasses and 30 mugs had been sold in the first few hours after they went on sale Friday morning...
...thought it was very clever,” said Amit Lakhanpal ’06, who bought two beer mugs and a shot glass. “I didn’t really see it as too much about anti-divestment, more just a fundraiser rather than a political statement...