Prohibition Campus

[Greenday]

Maybe it's because I'm a little older than some of you, but I am done with drinking and partying. When I turn 24 I will finally be able to get grants and financial aid, and I will not be partying hard like most college kids here do, but then again, I spent those years where most kids are starting college working all the time and drinking on the weekends and grew tired of how it made me feel and how it made me and other people act.

I'm not saying they can't drink at all period, I'm just saying I haven't an issue at all with dry dorms and campuses.

So you've managed to get past the hardcore partying stage. If most people started college at 24, drinking at colleges would probably be a lot lower. 24 year olds are a lot more likely to be done with the binge drinking phase.

I do have an issue with dry dorms and campuses. If I, when I was 21, wanted to go out and have a couple drinks with friends on the weekend, why should I get in trouble for that. Legally I was old enough to drink. Or what if it's Sunday afternoon and I want to kick back, watch football, and drink a beer. What's wrong with that?

[Kaylyn]

...we have a pre-uni school in that area (this school is a specialist Maths/Science school, the students are in Years 10-12, there's no uniforms (the students are required to wear a badge though) and the classes are run more like your standard uni).

I almost want to say I know where you are now, unless those types of pre-uni schools are more common than I realized. The school in question isn't in Louisiana, is it?

On topic...I most definitely went to a school with a prohibition campus. Of course, I went to a hardcore Southern Baptist private college. We really didn't have many partiers, though, so it didn't seem to be that big of a deal. And, at the time, I was hardcore Southern Baptist myself, so I was applauding the policy.

Nowadays, I don't drink much anyway, so I really don't care one way or the other about policies like this.

[Rageaholic]

I've actually never really drank or partied. It just never appealed to me.

[guywithashovel]

I didn't live in the dorms when I went to college. The University of Rio Grande was about 30 miles up US Route 35, and Mom and Dad thought I should stay at home and go there after finishing high school, and that's what I did. When I was finishing high school, I did have dreams of going away to college somewhere or maybe joining the military, but I was never the type to push back much when the parents insisted I do something a certain way.

I'm pretty sure the dorms were dry, though. I think I remember hearing that from other students. The campus itself wasn't dry, though. Alcohol was served at the parties and dances that the college had, but you had to be 21 to get it, and you couldn't fool them, either.

I can understand why they would ban alcohol in the dorms, though I wouldn't be surprised if allowing it actually creates a better environment. Many college students still have enough teenage angst that they will want to do certain things just because they are banned by authorities. Then again, I think most of us have that in us to some extent. I'll admit that I do, and I'm 28.

[HYHYBT]

You can go to the bar to drink or you can go to someone's house. There's no need to have it in your room.

Having it in your room is far safer, though: less chance of someone taking advantage of your drunkenness, and no worrying about transportation.

Seems completely backwards to me to say that you can drink anywhere *except* the safest place to do so. Not, of course, as backwards as telling people they cannot come home until they're sober, but still.

On topic...I most definitely went to a school with a prohibition campus. Of course, I went to a hardcore Southern Baptist private college. We really didn't have many partiers, though, so it didn't seem to be that big of a deal. And, at the time, I was hardcore Southern Baptist myself, so I was applauding the policy.

I find it funny that the "Baptist Faith And Message" used to, back when it was short, specify wine for communion. Given the bizarre "all alcohol is evil, period" attitude that has long since been mainstream within that group.

[RootedPhoenix]

The policies of the school in the OP are just going to cause a load of resentment, if not outright defiance.

Whether or not I'd want to drink (I really, truly don't) throwing rules at people doesn't change what they want. Outside rules don't change inner desires.

Saying "Drinking is bad, mmkay?" doesn't magically change anything.

[protege]

I've actually never really drank or partied. It just never appealed to me.

Me neither. I guess growing up next to a family of alcoholics did that. They were constantly trashed, and fights/screaming/police were common occurrences. Kinda killed the idea of even trying it, I guess. Even in college, I didn't drink or party. Of course, going to school in my grandmother's (small) town, where everyone knew my family (including parents), I wasn't about to tempt things. I might be crazy, but I'm not stupid.

At most, I'll have a glass or two of wine with dinner, or a Crown & Coke now and then, and that's usually it.

[Mytical]

I've actually never really drank or partied. It just never appealed to me.

Same. Before I was 31 I had a total of 5 alcoholic beverages in my life time, mostly just to see what they tasted like. I did give getting drunk a try at 31, but failed. Mostly because the taste of the stuff near killed me. Especially the long island ice tea..blech

[ExRetailDrone]

Especially the long island ice tea..blech

In my experience, long islands are either really delicious, or absolutely atrocious, depending on how well they're made. If made right, they don't taste like alcohol at all, if made poorly they taste like gasoline.

I've never been a huge drinker, but I did partake during my late-teens/early-20s. It tapered off over the past decade, and now I might get drunk 2-3 times a year. Just not my thing anymore. Ironically, it seemed to begin losing its appeal once I turned 21 Not that I think that is too uncommon. Sometimes the risk makes it more fun... or something.

[blas87]

Bloody Marys are along the same lines. Get a retarded or hurried bartender and you're drinking what tastes like liquid hot peppers and tomato juice.

I have a family of boozers on both sides. The dramatic, soap opera alcoholics on my mom's side, the crazy weird ones on my dad's side. I never wanted to get too out of control because I didn't want to end up hating the entire world and everyone in it and drinking myself into oblivion every day like my stupid great aunt and uncle, or end up being a dry drunk like my grandpa who still ACTS like an alcoholic but without drinking......or end up with a criminal record like a few of my cousins.

[Andara Bledin]

In my experience, long islands are either really delicious, or absolutely atrocious, depending on how well they're made. If made right, they don't taste like alcohol at all, if made poorly they taste like gasoline.

If you don't care for the taste of alcohol, itself, even the best-made LIIT will taste utterly vile.

^-.-^

[blas87]

I actually don't mind them if a halfway competent bartender makes them so they taste more like lemonade and less like lighter fluid.

[ExRetailDrone]

I actually don't mind them if a halfway competent bartender makes them so they taste more like lemonade and less like lighter fluid.

I feel the same way. I'm not a huge fan of the taste of alcohol, but I don't mind a well-made long island. However, because of the chance of it tasting like something I wouldn't be able to make myself drink, I almost never order them.

[blas87]

I'm the same way with the Bloody Marys. They used to be one of my favorites, but bartenders here seem adament to make them either as hot as possible (just to spite you because you asked for it to be mild) or when you say "mild", they spite you more by just making it mostly tomato juice.

[Mytical]

In my experience, long islands are either really delicious, or absolutely atrocious, depending on how well they're made. If made right, they don't taste like alcohol at all, if made poorly they taste like gasoline.
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To be honest, though I've never tasted gasoline..I think that it might actually have tasted better then this drink. So I probably just had somebody make it wrong or something. I tried a number of drinks trying to once in my life get drunk. Guinness was decent, Margaritas were so-so, Screwdrivers were meh, but this .. after trying this is when I stopped trying. Bleh.