<p>now normally i wouldn't bring this up, but this is lame.</p>
<p>read the crimson or the ydn to find out about how harvard is ruining the tailgating before the game. sad.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33280%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33280</a>
<a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=514354%5B/url%5D">http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=514354</a></p>
<p>The "new" tailgating rules at the Yalebowl last year (no drinking games and tailgating ends after the third) were not enforced. Tailgating lasted well after the game and there were many drinking games from what I saw. New Haven police are generally pretty liberal. The BPD on the other hand FREAKED out after the Ohiri tailgate two years ago. Too much hard liquor from what I saw due to the keg ban caused many undergrads to become sick.</p>
<p>Very lame.</p>
<p>Short term: HY "Tailgating" will happen at finals clubs, in suites, etc. Most students won't even make it across the river, let alone inside the stadium.</p>
<p>Long term: ???</p>
<p>Administrators frozen by (1) legal liability fears and (2) fear of Boston Police Department politics.</p>
<p>I must say, however, that the scene at the Yale last year - where the majority of students didn't enter the Bowl - if at all - until the 4th quarter, was something of a perversion of the event. If the game hadn't gone into OT, these "fans" wouldn't have seen much football. </p>
<p>IMHO, if the students have no interest in The Game itself, the colleges should have no longterm willingness to risk community approbation to merely facilitate a disorderly, mass drinking event.</p>
<p>To the extent "tailgating" is entirely disconnected from the football game it loses its raisson d'etre.</p>