While Harvard continues its misguided crackdown on drinking at The Game, Yale alums say that, without tailgating, there’s much less reason to go.

Harvard’s absurd policy is this: You can’t bring alcohol into the university parking lots, and only those with Yale or Harvard IDs can buy the alcohol that will be on sale.

My policy would be this: People who are driving, don’t drink. Everyone else, knock yourself out.

Truth is, The Game has always been more fun in New Haven, because the campus parties are better and there’s more room for tailgating in the fields around the Yale Bowl than there is in Allston.

Harry Lewis began this anti-drinking mania by banning kegs at The Game—a mistake, I thought, which would probably lead to greater consumption of hard alcohol. Benedict Gross seems to have solved that problem by making it so little fun to drink any alcohol at all, no one will want to go.

If I were a Harvard College alum, I’d withhold my annual contribution for that reason alone….