“No one’s going to sign onto this event unless a lot more regulations and restrictions are put in place,” Evans said. “We’re going to have to revisit the whole idea of such a large-scale event.”

Since Harvard-Yale weekend, College officials have met with Evans multiple times in order to discuss how ‘Operation Student Shield, BPD’s crackdown on underage drinking, will affect Harvard students, according to Kidd.

“In Boston, this is a very serious crackdown, and we’re very late to the party,” Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien said.

Although the planning for the November 2006 tailgate will not begin until Spring 2006, Kidd said that the College will take pains to prevent public urination by providing more porta-potties.

Although students complain about the disparities between the tailgate policies at Harvard and Yale, those differences may grow smaller in future years, according to O’Brien.

“[Dean Gross] and I talked to some deans [at Yale] who said they wanted to do what we did,” O’Brien said last week.

But Yale students are determined to fight against any Harvard-style tailgate restrictions.

“I think it would be the YCC’s obligation, as the representative body of students, to fight against stricter policies,” Andrew Ceder, President of the YCC, told the Yale Herald in November.

—Staff writer Joshua P. Rogers can be reached at jprogers@fas.harvard.edu.