No Tables=No Binge Drinking for Havard vs. Yale?

Yale Bans Drinking Games for Harvard Game
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press WriterThu Oct 27, 2:42 PM ET
Yale is banning drinking games from this year’s football game against Harvard and will shut down all tailgate parties after halftime — a move some alumni say could put a damper on one of college football’s oldest and most storied rivalries.
The rules to discourage binge drinking at the Yale Bowl will take effect Nov. 5, when Yale faces Brown, but they are clearly aimed at the most raucous event of the season — the Nov. 19 Harvard-Yale game.
The Ivy League contest, known simply as “The Game,” dates to 1875 and draws nearly as many fans outside the stadium as inside. Students and alumni fill U-Hauls with kegs, grills and hard liquor and set up elaborate buffets under party tents. Some parties serve up domestic beer; others offer champagne and shrimp cocktail.

“Our major concern is for the health and safety of our students,” said Betty Trachtenberg, Yale dean of student affairs. “Perhaps over the years those concerns had been lost sight of.”
Harvard tightened its rules last year, requiring wristbands to prove people were old enough to drink. The school also limits the amount of alcohol that can be brought into the tailgate area. Yale followed suit this week, issuing eight new rules.

Among other things, drinking games will be banned along with related paraphernalia, such as the tables used to play beer pong.
“We don’t want to send hordes of students to the hospital after each game. Drinking games are meant to get people drunk,” Trachtenberg said.

For alumni, the biggest change will be the early closing time for tailgate parties, said Patrick Ruwe, a 1983 graduate and the president of the Yale Football Association Board.

“I think it will have an effect on the character of the game, independent of alcohol, just for tailgating with families,” Ruwe said.
Brian Ameche, a 1975 graduate and former defensive end, said: “Unless you have a personal interest in the game — you’re a former player or you have a child who’s playing — it’s as much about the tailgating as it is about the game of football.”
Harvard athletic department spokesman Chuck Sullivan said the university wanted to prevent tailgating parties from spilling over into nearby neighborhoods. Last year, police issued a number of citations for underage drinking and threatened to ban student tailgating.
New Haven Police spokeswoman Bonnie Winchester said that while there have been no “remarkable” problems at Yale in recent years, the department welcomes Yale’s new rules.
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Oh no tables……. So that means no beer pong, quarters or power cups… I guess that is going to put the kybosh on binge drinking at this years Harvard vs. Yale football game. Yeah… Um probably not.
So they can’t play those famous drinking games. I think they should start a few new ones for this weekends activities, here are a couple of suggestions:

1) Guess who is on scholarship: Here is a game that involves people watching and the elitist snob attitude of going to Yale. Basically when a fellow student walks by people make the call if they are on scholarship or if their family is loaded. Someone simply asks them the question if they are on scholarship and whatever the answer is the loser drinks. Who needs a table for this type of fun?

2) Who’s not an alumnus? For this you need a quarter, a string, and a piece of tape. Tape the string to the quarter and leave it out about 10-15 feet from your tailgating area. When people are approaching the quarter make a bet if they are alumni or really a douche bag local. If the person bends over to pick up the quarter yank it back… they are a douche bag local! The loser drinks yet again.

3) Whose been date raped? Basically you wait for a girl to walk by that everyone in your groups knows. You all make claims on you think has date raped her and had her silenced with the threat of your parents money and the power of the secret society that you belong to. Again for the people who have got it wrong drink. However if more then one person dated raped her it is shots for all. Good times!

4) Who has an illegal immigrant maid? Kind of like the guess who is in scholarship game. When a person approaches you make a guess whether or not they have hired an illegal immigrant as a maid and have paid her illegally under the table. When the party approaches you ask them what country their made is from? If they respond with a foreign country the losers drink. If they respond that they don’t have a maid you beat them within an inch of their life and explain they should be going to community college.
See who says you need tables and other drinking gadgets to binge drink and have fun?