Because of central beer distribution, Adams has opted to bring other beverages instead, says Joshua A. Barro ’05, Adams HoCo co-chair.
“We will have appetizers served with hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps as well as cider,” he says.
Some Houses are staying tight-lipped about their plans for tomorrow.
“We will be reversing a recent disturbing trend in the environmental conditions surrounding Harvard-Yale,” Lowell HoCo chair Todd van Stolk-Riley ’06 says. Van Stolk-Riley would not disclose further details about Lowell’s tailgate.
And Mather HoCo is “working to ensure a fun experience within the rules,” Darren S. Morris ’05, the House’s co-chair, writes in an e-mail. A Mather-Open e-mail from HoCo secretary Hana R. Alberts ’06, also a Crimson editor, said there was a “top secret construction project underway.”
The alcohol restrictions, specifically the keg ban, have raised concerns among some Yale students.
Levin says that restrictions on alcohol may persuade students to substitute hard liquor for beer, and drink excessively.
“People find the rules absolutely ridiculous because they don’t address what Harvard is trying to address,” says Levin, who is the social activities committee co-chair for Saybrook College.
McKeegan agrees, pointing out that underage drinkers are now more focused on finding ways to subvert the system.
“Those under 21 who are going are now focused on alcohol in a way [they] were not before the regulations. Now I’m hearing about all kinds of elaborate plans, most of which involve hard alcohol without even mixers,” McKeegan writes in an e-mail. “That’s a recipe for disaster.”
BE MY GUEST?
Most alumni will have to pay $10, if they want to tailgate at all.
To offset costs, the College is charging alumni, graduate students and guests $10 to enter the general tailgate area on Ohiri Field. As of yesterday at 5 p.m., 950 tickets had been sold and the alumni association has reserved 200 additional tickets. Tailgate tickets can be purchased at the Harvard Box Office.
While alumni classes were given the option of renting a tent on the intramural fields and hiring Crimson Catering if they wanted their own tailgates, few opted to do so because of the high costs, says Zachary A Corker ’04, special assistant to dean for social programming. Corker says the classes of 2002, 2003 and 2004 chose not to hold their own tailgates.
HLCentral, an unofficial Harvard Law School social group, is planning to tailgate on Soldier’s Field, a general admissions area. College student groups have been warned against relying on finding a place on the general admissions area because of limited number of available spaces, fewer than in years past, says Corker.
According to Carlisle, the Yale College Council allocated several spots to graduate student groups and graduate schools, including their divinity school, on their tailgate area on Ohiri Field.
—Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Joshua P. Rogers can be reached at jprogers@fas.harvard.edu.