mmmmmmmmmmmmm, vomit.

ignore that. not meant for this thread

JackalRabbit: mmmmmmmmmmmmm, vomit.

This is why the kegs were banned people!

It's really Osceola's skull, right? Nobody really believes that "burnt in a Parisian fire" story, right?

FTA: The university also said that student tailgating must end at the kickoff of football games, and that all students and guests will be required to leave the student tailgating area after than. People who don't go to the game will have to have leave the Yale Bowl area.

In other words Yale football games are boring and the majority of students going to the Yale Bowl were there just to drink in the parking lot.

neuroflare: JackalRabbit: mmmmmmmmmmmmm, vomit.

This is why the kegs were banned people!

I read tfa and it's because they make trucks heavy and hard to stop

"Nancy Barry, 30, of Salem, Mass., was killed and two other people were injured outside the Yale Bowl on Nov. 19 when a U-Haul truck laden with beer kegs suddenly accelerated and ran into them."

Hmm, seems to me that Yale should ban U-haul trucks and not kegs.

MasterPython: neuroflare: JackalRabbit: mmmmmmmmmmmmm, vomit.

This is why the kegs were banned people!

I read tfa and it's because they make trucks heavy and hard to stop

And so do cases of beer.

Applications to Harvard increase by 100% in 3, 2, 1.....

Strongbeerrules: Applications to Harvard increase by 100% in 3, 2, 1.....

Harvard already bans U-halls and beer kegs at tailgating and is stricter about alcohol in general.

Personally I think the drinking problem in colleges would be solved if the administrations would embrace, instead of shun, the alcohol consumption by the students. A regular campus-wide kegger, combined with alcohol education, would be far more educational and informative and useful than telling students to just not drink at all. Like abstinence-only sex ed in high schools. That won't work at private colleges, but should be required at public colleges and universities, and students should be required to attend at least one college kegger before they graduate.

Captain Steroid: Do they still have Geronimo's skull? O_o

Well, to be fair, he hasn't asked for it back.

HairBolus: FTA: The university also said that student tailgating must end at the kickoff of football games, and that all students and guests will be required to leave the student tailgating area after than. People who don't go to the game will have to have leave the Yale Bowl area.

In other words Yale football games are boring and the majority of students going to the Yale Bowl were there just to drink in the parking lot.

... Pretty much! Waaay more fun outside than inside. Or at least it used to be.

... kegs don't kill people, driving trucks through keg parties kills people.

Jesus christ, what do they expect these kids to do at night? Bible study?

Farkin' Ivy League Candy-arses.
Don't forget the barnoculars folks...

Yaxe: Jesus christ, what do they expect these kids to do at night? Bible study?

Vietnam taught us if you ban alcohol, they smoke pot, if you ban pot they smoke heroin. By the '70s those pot smokers looked real good compared to the drinkers and junkies. There are commanders on record saying things to that effect.

crap, with no kegs, how in the world will they be able to get large quantities of alcohol to the tailgate parties?!?...they're ivy league therefore I seriously doubt they'll be able to get around those restrictions

/roll eye's and goes back to editing video...nope not pron

But Mimsy used this cask to transport the body of the Fifth Earl of Sussex over on the Mayflower! Dispensing with tradition just isn't done and to say otherwise smacks of Harvardism!

These stories really make me feel like an old fogey, but I can remember when college students were considered adults, however error-prone and inexperienced they may have been. They were not treated like children at summer camp.

In related news, The Cornell Daily Sun reported today that Ithaca's Royal Palm tavern is closing next month after over 40 years, leaving Collegetown with only two bars, the Chapter House and Dunbar's. The owners cited changing drinking habits among Cornell students; in other words, they are more likely to be binge-drinking in frat houses and private apartments than being satisfied with two or three five-dollar beers in establishments where the law considers them "underage" (every time somebody dies from alcohol poisoning at a fraternity hazing or house party, the police crack down on BARS to check IDs more rigorously: go figure).

This is the same Cornell where every bridge is shrouded in black chain-link suicide fences so that the place looks less like one of the world's great college campuses in a sublime natural setting than like a medium-security state penitentiary.

I think the message is clear: treat adults like children, and they will act like children. .

orclover: fusillade762: Captain Steroid: Do they still have Geronimo's skull? O_o

Well, to be fair, he hasn't asked for it back.

Its a pitty he doesnt have any descendents left to give a fark beyond a crappy lawsuit. Skull and bones could do with a good thinning of the herd.

Well, to be honest, so could Fark........

Cornelius Dribble: These stories really make me feel like an old fogey, but I can remember when college students were considered adults, however error-prone and inexperienced they may have been. They were not treated like children at summer camp.

In related news, The Cornell Daily Sun reported today that Ithaca's Royal Palm tavern is closing next month after over 40 years, leaving Collegetown with only two bars, the Chapter House and Dunbar's. The owners cited changing drinking habits among Cornell students; in other words, they are more likely to be binge-drinking in frat houses and private apartments than being satisfied with two or three five-dollar beers in establishments where the law considers them "underage" (every time somebody dies from alcohol poisoning at a fraternity hazing or house party, the police crack down on BARS to check IDs more rigorously: go figure).

This is the same Cornell where every bridge is shrouded in black chain-link suicide fences so that the place looks less like one of the world's great college campuses in a sublime natural setting than like a medium-security state penitentiary.

I think the message is clear: treat adults like children, and they will act like children. .

When I toured Notre Dame as a pre-frosh they had "married dorms" which were effectively small houses for married students. I'm not sure if they still have them, but it was so long ago I remember I didn't find it unusual.

When I took my wife out to dinner for our 20th wedding anniversary in 2009 there was a college sorority party at the same restaurant and the kids bought us drinks because they thought it was our Golden wedding anniversary. Then they marveled at the fact that we got married in our twenties. We were like an anthropological study of an ancient species to them.

Long story short - I'm not sure the people going to college these days are adults. Back in my day you were competing with other people who didn't go to college and were starting their adult life early. These days no one is starting their adult life early, or even in their twenties. When I went to college it wasn't unusual for the student to pay for their education and housing because they worked while going to school. These days working while going to college is seen as a "disadvantage".

If your parents pay for your schooling and housing and you don't have to work while you are in college - you aren't an adult. You are a child. You may as well be in "second high school".

HairBolus: Strongbeerrules: Applications to Harvard increase by 100% in 3, 2, 1.....

Harvard already bans U-halls and beer kegs at tailgating and is stricter about alcohol in general.

"Sigh" That's progress, I guess. College/university life used to be fun.

Lsherm: Cornelius Dribble: These stories really make me feel like an old fogey, but I can remember when college students were considered adults, however error-prone and inexperienced they may have been. They were not treated like children at summer camp.

In related news, The Cornell Daily Sun reported today that Ithaca's Royal Palm tavern is closing next month after over 40 years, leaving Collegetown with only two bars, the Chapter House and Dunbar's. The owners cited changing drinking habits among Cornell students; in other words, they are more likely to be binge-drinking in frat houses and private apartments than being satisfied with two or three five-dollar beers in establishments where the law considers them "underage" (every time somebody dies from alcohol poisoning at a fraternity hazing or house party, the police crack down on BARS to check IDs more rigorously: go figure).

This is the same Cornell where every bridge is shrouded in black chain-link suicide fences so that the place looks less like one of the world's great college campuses in a sublime natural setting than like a medium-security state penitentiary.

I think the message is clear: treat adults like children, and they will act like children. .

When I toured Notre Dame as a pre-frosh they had "married dorms" which were effectively small houses for married students. I'm not sure if they still have them, but it was so long ago I remember I didn't find it unusual.

When I took my wife out to dinner for our 20th wedding anniversary in 2009 there was a college sorority party at the same restaurant and the kids bought us drinks because they thought it was our Golden wedding anniversary. Then they marveled at the fact that we got married in our twenties. We were like an anthropological study of an ancient species to them.

Long story short - I'm not sure the people going to college these days are adults. Back in my day you were competing with other people who didn't go to college and were starting their ad ...

Time and cost, my friend. Nowadays college students pay more, are expected to take an unpaid internship and be on the executive board of some career-related club. Then you come out with enough debt to buy a house and are expected to pay for it all on an entry level salary.

Also, the old fogeys expect us Gen-Y people to be job-creating entrepreneurs out of the gate to replace the job they automated or sent overseas.

The old Farkers of the world demand 80+ hours weeks of class, unpaid apprenticeship and clubs, huge loans since paying taxes for financial aid costs them money, then they want us to create new jobs for them to get them to age 62 when they can retire and collect social security from our paychecks.

Mock26: "Nancy Barry, 30, of Salem, Mass., was killed and two other people were injured outside the Yale Bowl on Nov. 19 when a U-Haul truck laden with beer kegs suddenly accelerated and ran into them."

Hmm, seems to me that Yale should ban U-haul trucks and not kegs.

Nice.

"The driver of the truck, a Yale student, passed a field sobriety test. The police investigation into the accident is continuing."

Scary.

Cornelius Dribble: These stories really make me feel like an old fogey, but I can remember when college students were considered adults, however error-prone and inexperienced they may have been. They were not treated like children at summer camp.

In related news, The Cornell Daily Sun reported today that Ithaca's Royal Palm tavern is closing next month after over 40 years, leaving Collegetown with only two bars, the Chapter House and Dunbar's. The owners cited changing drinking habits among Cornell students; in other words, they are more likely to be binge-drinking in frat houses and private apartments than being satisfied with two or three five-dollar beers in establishments where the law considers them "underage" (every time somebody dies from alcohol poisoning at a fraternity hazing or house party, the police crack down on BARS to check IDs more rigorously: go figure).

This is the same Cornell where every bridge is shrouded in black chain-link suicide fences so that the place looks less like one of the world's great college campuses in a sublime natural setting than like a medium-security state penitentiary.

I think the message is clear: treat adults like children, and they will act like children. .

Actually, Yale treated us like adults. Their policy on drinking (which, admittedly, has changed since I was a freshman in '07) was, "We know you're going to drink, just please don't be stupid." We didn't have R.A.s, and the analog we did have (known as freshman counselors) didn't care if we drank.

Also, from what the article says, kegs are banned only at university functions. This does not include student-thrown parties or frats (of which there are only a handful anyways).

Old joke:

Two men from opposing sides are at consecutive urinals during the Harvard-Yale game. The Harvard man finishes up and walks past the sinks and toward the door. Yale man says, "At Yale, we wash our hands after we go to the bathroom." Harvard man replies, "At Harvard, we don't piss on our hands."

Drinking 100-year-old cognac from Geronimo's skull still okay

Misuse of Indians is more of a Dartmouth thing, anyway.

Well, they were warned:

Back in the day, I found out I got accepted into graduate school at another university so I went to a "Spring Fling" campus kegger. I had 3 weeks of school left and only needed to pass 2 classes, so inebriation was the order of the day.

I was enjoying the music of a local band, a few beers, and the company of fellow students, who in 3 weeks, I would no longer be school mates. I needed to go to my car to get something for a friend, Chiclets, Skoal, I cannot remember which one, when I hit my head on a "No Parking from 9am-5pm" sign. A normal human could have walked right under the sign but I am a huge, beastly, bulging man, so I split my head wide open.

In a fit of rage I ripped the sign right off of the post like it was a piece of tissue paper. I did not know a campus police officer was standing 10 feet away looking at me with blood in his eyes. He wrote me a ticket for destruction of property and told me to sober up and go to the ER to get stitched up. Fortunately for me, he asked for my student id, not a driver's license, as I was not yet 21. A $50 co-pay for the stitches and $25 fine for the sign later, I left the school and didn't look back.

The morals of the story: Carry Chiclets and Skoal in a pocket, and if you are a huge, beastly, bulging man, duck.

so they banned kegs because a truck (full of kegs) lost control and hit some people. interesting as i was sure it was gonna be about binge drinking and not actual death caused by kegs.

i guess it kind of makes since, but then doesn't. will they ban the truck load of bowling balls? what happens if it hits a hospital? who has the pitch forks?

StoPPeRmobile: Mock26: "Nancy Barry, 30, of Salem, Mass., was killed and two other people were injured outside the Yale Bowl on Nov. 19 when a U-Haul truck laden with beer kegs suddenly accelerated and ran into them."

Hmm, seems to me that Yale should ban U-haul trucks and not kegs.

Nice.

"The driver of the truck, a Yale student, passed a field sobriety test. The police investigation into the accident is continuing."

Scary.

Nah, not scary, just monumentally stupid.

I used to live just two miles from Geronimo's grave, so I got a kick out of the headline.