Why Harvard Sucks

Well, for starters, I'm not sure it would be possible to craft an alcohol management scheme more asinine than this one. The trouble started two years ago, when some well-meaning dolt in the Harvard administration decided that the way to curb underage and excessive drinking at The Game is to ban kegs from the tailgates. And the policy was extraordinarily effective...at transforming the tailgate into a festival of hard liquor in glass bottles.

This year, because their 2002 efforts worked so well, Harvard took the further step of implementing a Woodstock '99-style policy of access to and from the tailgating area. Clearly, the ensuing incidents (including such grave offenses as Yalies punking Harvard by stealing their flag and the Saybrook senior class stripping naked) was the fault of unprecedented student misconduct. So for future tailgates, it seems, Harvard in conjunction with the Boston police will be working to keep hard liquor out of the tailgate. Brilliant, just fucking brilliant. A question for the Harvard administration: wouldn't it be a lot more efficient to set up water coolers filled with grain alcohol throughout the stands at Harvard stadium?

For further proof that Harvard is not a part of the reality-based community, check out Jamie Kirchick's column today on Harvard's inability to own up to its shameful history during World War II. Amazing that the Catholic church and the nation of Switzerland can admit to having been bad little kitties but Harvard can't. Whoever penned that Crimson editorial should have the image of Willy Brandt crying at Auschwitz tattooed into his forehead.

P.S. On the assumption that whatever the YDN says is true, then yeah, we got them good.