I don't want to bring this up again, but I had a class this morning where we were discussing ways Penn State capitalizes on student body, and ways that it (in part or in whole and in some manner) discourages student drinking without exactly eradicating it. Naturally, the conversation veered to State Patty's Day, which carried enthusiastic support from the vast majority of the students in the class (it's a 50-person gen-ed class, COMM 100). That's when I turned off.
On this *wonderful* holiday, I was downtown after my 7-9am radio show mailing a score out for a competition. I was lucky enough to pass the Phyrst just as someone was being thrown out. Yes, this was around 9:45am. I was fighting my way through crowds of drunk college students. It was like a badly directed zombie film.
It is impossible for me to justify devoting an entire day to nothing but drinking for the sake of drinking. That's not a holiday. That's not even a cultural event. That's a waste of time.
I'm glad the university refuses to support it, but students need to realize that this isn't a joke: it's a downright shame.
I said before that in the Daily Collegian a few weeks ago, there was mention of a past 'holiday' in March that consisted of a day-long peace-sitting on the HUB lawn. I'm surprised that whenever I bring this conversation up in COMM 100, students latch onto the State Patty's Day and completely ignore whatever that other thing was. This is a serious problem with our generation. We really need to change this now.
I'll let Jon Stewart show you what that looks like...
On this *wonderful* holiday, I was downtown after my 7-9am radio show mailing a score out for a competition. I was lucky enough to pass the Phyrst just as someone was being thrown out. Yes, this was around 9:45am. I was fighting my way through crowds of drunk college students. It was like a badly directed zombie film.
It is impossible for me to justify devoting an entire day to nothing but drinking for the sake of drinking. That's not a holiday. That's not even a cultural event. That's a waste of time.
I'm glad the university refuses to support it, but students need to realize that this isn't a joke: it's a downright shame.
I said before that in the Daily Collegian a few weeks ago, there was mention of a past 'holiday' in March that consisted of a day-long peace-sitting on the HUB lawn. I'm surprised that whenever I bring this conversation up in COMM 100, students latch onto the State Patty's Day and completely ignore whatever that other thing was. This is a serious problem with our generation. We really need to change this now.
I'll let Jon Stewart show you what that looks like...
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