Brown and White Vol. 123 no. 18

              Vol. 123 No. 18
Friday, November 16, 2012
‘All the Lehigh News First’
THE BROWN AND WHITE
Lehigh University’s Student Newspaper Founded in 1894
SPORTS
Hawks fight
for fifth straight
Page 20
LE-LAF RIVALRY
See complete
Rivalry coverage
Page 9
A story behind
Lehigh’s scultures
Page 7
LIFESTYLE
HAWKS’ HUNT IS ON
By BEN HULAC
In an effort to combat dangerous binge drinking and, as an intended result to place the primary focus of Saturday’s 148th consecutive Lehigh-Lafayette matchup on the game itself, the Lafayette College administration has instituted a new alcohol policy.
In conjunction with a stricter enforce­ment of open container laws, tailgating rules and schedules and federal laws, no one will be allowed to have more than two six-packs with them. Also, if a per­son is of age but the people with them are under 21, they quite possibly will be charged with providing alcohol to mi­nors, a misdemeanor.
Tailgating will begin at 10 a.m. and will end at 1 p.m., at which time authorities will clear March Field, An­derson Courtyard and other tailgating areas. Also, alcoholic beverages are not permitted in Fisher Stadium or on the Lehigh buses before or after the game.
Vice Provost John Smeaton ad­dressed the new policy in an email Nov. 9.
“Any student who behaves in a dis­ruptive manner will face criminal and Lehigh University consequences, which may include arrest and immediate sus­pension from the university,” he wrote.
Smeaton also wrote that visible in­toxicated students will not be permitted to ride the buses or enter the stadium, and that everyone will be screened be­fore entering Fisher Stadium.
In May, the Lafayette community suffered a deeply saddening alcoholre­lated death of a student. While this new alcohol policy is in manner ways a re­sponse to that tragedy, it was not specifi­cally designed for the Saturday’s game:at Leopard home games, Lafayette of­ficials have already successful enforced this new procedure.
“The whole thinking about this day is because we really want to make sure students are having a great time, that students are safe [...] that the interest is on the football game,” said Lafay­ette College Dean of Students Paul McLoughlin.
“With that as the framework of the day, we’ve tried to strike a balance,” McLoughlin said. “We have a specific tailgating time period. We [also] have a personal carry limit.”
McLoughlin said, however, that he hopes the personal carry limit doesn’t become a “personal consumption limit.”
In past years at Lafayette, according to McLoughlin, there really wasn’t an emphasis on the game itself. Many La­fayette students used the game as an ex­cuse for dangerous binge drinking. Both schools are similar in that regard.
Considering the attendance at home football games in past years (a prod­uct indicative of a student body more interested in drinking than showing school spirit, and the recent incentiv­Lafayette
policy curbs binge drinking
See POLICY Page 2
B&W photo by DAVE DiFRANCESCO
Ryan Spadola breaks from Princeton University’s Phillip Bhaya after making a reception in the Hawks 14-7 victory Sept. 15. The Hawks play the Leopards tomorrow in Easton at 1 p.m.. See page 9 and go online to www.thebrownandwhite.com to see The Brown and White’s full Lehigh-Lafayette coverage.