In her most recent dispatch from the Politburo, Dean Lively announced:
“Alcohol and Drinking Games: While the alcohol policy will be unchanged, effective immediately, and in order to decrease the risk of the spread of COVID-19, “drinking games” such as pong are prohibited in any location, on-campus or locally off-campus. These games promote the spreading of COVID-19 through lack of wearing face coverings, lack of physical distancing and the sharing of cups.”
The Administration always knows how to make students feel welcomed back.
While pong can be admittedly unhygienic—mainly due to the practice of sharing cups—this outright ban precludes the possibility of virus appropriate variants, including singles or limiting players to those quarantined with you already for students in off-campus apartments.
This ban is additionally inconsistent with several of The College’s existing reopening policies. While six feet of social distancing is to be maintained at all times, ten feet of distance is unacceptable when on the opposite ends of plywood. While players frequently touch a shared ball, standard disinfecting practices could be applied before and between games, the same as the college’s intended policy for high contact surfaces. As gatherings of more than four—the required number of players—are allowed on campus in outdoor spaces, what about students living off-campus with yards.
Never letting a good crisis go to waste, this policy is transparently a way to attack Greek Life further—giving The College yet another reason to put houses on probation. Given the precarious financial situation many houses are already in from months of lost dues, and COVID related complications limiting rush, targeted enforcement of this policy could be a death blow. For further confirmation that this is The College’s intention, note that the ban does not specify any duration and is seemingly in perpetuity.
Despite student efforts defeating the proposed Hanover ordinance that attempted to effectively ban pong in private residences, The Administration has now decided to do it for them. Don’t worry though; Lively also included their ideas for alternative activities, including scavenger hunts and mini-golf—you can digitally reserve a timeslot now.
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