Drinking isn't a privilege
Adrian Acu
freshman
This campus makes me laugh sometimes. All this fervor over the new alcohol policy is only proving the administration right in its actions.
In his March 20 letter, Vinnie Zuccaro made a comment that eliminating alcohol would destroy residential life on campus. Other campuses have made it and have not destroyed their residential life by banning alcohol. Why can't we? If alcohol is that much a central part of this University, then something is certainly wrong and a re-evaluation is in order. If students need alcohol in order to have a functioning residential life, then this campus most definitely has a problem.
The University, by state law, as we all know, should be banning all alcohol from minors. Banning hard alcohol is one step towards the law, not one backwards, and I find it funny that this privilege is being touted as a right. This attitude of ungratefulness will only make the University pull a tighter leash on the alcohol policy.
I've yet to see one valid protest from any of my fellow students on these new changes. So the students were not consulted; their opinion was most definitely well known and predicted and so far has proven right. After all, how many college students would just happily allow their hard liquor to be taken away from them?
Any protests that students make against this change, such as that RAs will have to be less friend and more rule-enforcer, or that it's eliminating an integral part of campus life, or that students will drink anyway just expose the real reasons that the administration is enacting this new policy.
So instead of automatically getting angry because your tequila bottles, which of course you use for "social drinking" only, are being kept away from you, try to think about why you're so angry that bottle is being taken away. Then maybe you can really understand the University's viewpoint, and maybe then you'll agree that it's not that bad an idea.
Adrian Acu
freshman
Fisher Hall
March 20, 2002
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