Posted on 11/25/2004 6:46:40 AM PST by GaryL
An ``ice luge'' funneling whiskey into gaping mouths and an open-air urination wall were sideshows of a Harvard University carnival Saturday at which 25 drunken students were carried out by ambulance, while another 32 were thrown out for being minors.
All while being chaperoned by deans from the country's most prestigious school.
``It was terrible,'' said Capt. William Evans, the Boston Police Department's liaison to colleges and universities. ``Everyone thinks they're America's best and brightest and they probably are, but where's the common sense here?''
One alum was arrested for dealing cocaine, the Harvard Crimson reported yesterday.
The university remains mum on the tailgate party to celebrate its traditional football game against Yale. Spokesman Robert Mitchell said it was the Herald who ``should be ashamed'' for calling $39,880-a-year undergrads ``hooligans'' on its front page Monday.
It's estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 people packed the event, when police were told no more than 4,000 were expected.
Police granted students a permit to set up a half-dozen beer-only concession stands in a controlled environment, but Evans said those stands were empty, while Ivy League coeds brazenly chugged hard liquor and dropped their drawers in front of cops, despite an ample supply of toilets.
``With everything we know about underage drinking,'' Evans lamented, ``this was all going on under the watchful eye of deans.''
Paul Chiano, director of victim services for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said the average youth has his first taste of alcohol at age 12.
``Drinking at college is probably a long-accepted rite of passage,'' Chiano said, ``but if you're under 21 you shouldn't be drinking at all.
``Drunk driving doesn't know race, creed, age, sex or gender,'' he said. ``It's a completely random and completely preventable crime. It's a matter of education and education that starts early. Ultimately, it starts at home.''
Isn't is about time that we as a society start to crack this "air of superiority" that liberalism has erected around Harvard and other elite, East coast Ivy League school?
In my experience, these schools are often filled with snobby "book-smart" kids who have no more or less common sense than other kids their age. But they are led to believe that they're somehow better than the rest of us because the go to Harvard. Give me a break!
They're not better. But they'll end up getting better jobs and probably had and will have better connections than others their own age.
Sounds like a fun time. Too bad some kids don't know when to stop.
They used to have a "luge" at one of Teddy K's old haunts on Palm Beach. I guess it was Au Bar. It was a blast.
It was a true epiphany when I came to realize that intelligence and common sense have absolutely nothing to do with one another. I think I learned that in college, though I'm pretty sure that this wasn't the conclusion that my professors wanted me to arrive at.
They're in training to become liberal elitists.
So will I! If you're like me, almost everything you've learned that's of value you've probably learned on your own. There is very little that I learned in college that is of much practical value.
Sounds like a chapter right out of Tom Wolfe's new book.
Amateurs. They need to come to LSU on gameday. ;)
I wonder what Tom Beckett has to say about this.
One of the only things I learned at college was how to meet the finest freshmen girls.......... at the registration line.
The professors at Harvard preach their superiority every day.
Did I miss, in the article, where the "carnival" was held?
Or was the revelry such that the BPD had to reinforce the Cambridge PD?
Heck, I thought the University of Tennessee was a party school. Phaw!
We didn't get half this bad back in 1998, when we PWNED Fla. State and won it all. O_o
ROFL!
Parents who spend $50,000 a year per kid (or more?) for Harvard are the ones to blame. As long as parents buy into the mystique, it will continue.
``Drunk driving doesn't know race, creed, age, sex or gender,''
OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T KNOW IQ, EITHER !
PWNED?
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