Alcohol is poison and has no place in academics. If you want to drink alcohol in college, either do it in an off-campus setting or go to a privately funded college. I don't want my tax dollars going towards a party "school" that allows or even encourages drinking on campus.
When I’m elepted presbedent I make sure that we have b-beer taps in every classroom and Jägermeister in every dorm.
7 years of college won’t be wasted though I might.
I went to a school that's considered a top party school in the country, and you're not allowed to have a drop of alcohol on campus already.
Large universities have restaurants, hotels, and conference centers on their campuses. I'm not a huge drinker myself, but I don't see any reason that I shouldn't be able to grab a drink at the hotel bar or have a beer at the social hour during an academic conference.
OneAngryTaxpayer wrote:
Alcohol is poison and has no place in academics.
Public colleges are a poison, and have no place in academics.
Banning it from the campus does nothing. Who would even be drinking alcohol on campus when the only people that live there are freshmen?
I don't have a list of examples, but take the University of Iowa. Consistently ranked one of the top party schools. No alcohol on campus.
Ban nerds instead.
Move to Utah you prude.
I fart in your general direction.
Way safer for the public to keep the drunks in the dorms and out of cars and off the streets .
The drunks Belong in congress and the oval office and building the freeways. Well mostly they should be police officers.
Better yet, do your part to change of the culture. It's truly wisdom that the history of alcohol is the history of ruin.
OneAngryTaxpayer wrote:
Alcohol is poison and has no place in academics. If you want to drink alcohol in college, either do it in an off-campus setting or go to a privately funded college. I don't want my tax dollars going towards a party "school" that allows or even encourages drinking on campus.
Do you honestly think that banning alcohol on campus will stop students from drinking on campus? I went to a private university that had a ban on alcohol on campus...which meant absolutely nothing. There was more booze in the dorms on campus that there was, collectively, in all of the bars in town.
You're a numbskull. Keep your $0.42 that you pay in taxes and buy yourself another Trump sticker to put on your beater.
I have not attended a Big 10 football game in over fifteen years. I saw University of MN-T.C. play in Minneapolis and I saw University of MN play U of Wisconsin in Madison. Both stadiums then were dry. O.P., officially these campuses are dry, are they not?
Also, depending on the state you live in, your public university might get no public funding. Look into it, but you might be angry over nothing you or anyone else has any control over. Hey, just like the rest of the problems in the world!
GORP wrote:
I went to a school that's considered a top party school in the country, and you're not allowed to have a drop of alcohol on campus already.
Same, I went to Iowa. You can't have alcohol in the dorms or anywhere on Campus. The alcohol is at the bars and houses where students live. Pretty sure there isn't a single campus that allows alcohol on campus?? Imagine someone shotgunning a beer in the engineering building after class
I do not drink. i used to be a great drinker. Now I believe alcohol to be for idiots. But is does not escape my notice that many of the soldiers and builders of infrastructure, like highways and skyscrapers, and the great minds who filled up the libraries with words, were actually moderate to heavy users of alcohol.
It is my preference when reading a biography of someone great to hear that they did not drink. and I do not know if coe was great. and perhaps tesla didn't drink. but returning to coe. from his book running my life. pg 224 - "after training we'd regularly head of to the local pub for a few beers and a laugh."
Personally I do believe that even one drink can interfere with my next days workout. and I have done some research into the value of having a functioning liver. So I don't drink. But Keith Richards and Lemmy outlived my sober father.
We live in a town next to a public university. When they went to becoming a dry campus all of the students rented houses in our town and threw massive parties.
As a result we had to beef up our police force. My taxes have gone up from ideas like yours not to mention our public safety has been compromised.
...in other words, keep the animals at the zoo
I majored in music in college. From my freshmen year through graduation, I was in classes and ensembles with grad and doctoral students. And a fair number of faculty would come to parties. So, there was always a few older folks in their late 20s and even 30s at parties. That made a big difference in terms of party atmosphere and drinking. The younger students modeled their behaviors after the older students and wouldn't binge drink and get out of control. Whenever I went to a non-music party where everyone was an undergrad, it was a totally different atmosphere with everyone trying to get completely trashed and acting like complete fools.
What we really need to do is integrate college kids into the adult world more so that they are not taking on the responsibilities of alcohol, sex, etc. in a vacuum with only other college kids as influences.