SMU to Keep Kids Sober By Making Them Go to Class Early?
SMU is doing what it can to curb alcohol (and drug) abuse by its students. Toward that end, a task force has made 30 recommendations aimed at keeping its student body drier and safer. One suggestion is a campus pub. At Notre Dame, we had such an on-campus, school-run swillery. Only losers went there. Face it, a bar run by a university — especially a university with the word “Methodist” in its name — is going to be lame. Another suggestion made by the task force: more early classes on Fridays to cut back on Thursday-night partying. Right. Those Friday morning classes will be real popular.
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My college in NH had a pub on campus, and it was GREAT. Rolling rock = 75 cents all night long… We could even use our scan meal cards in the pub. Strangely, after age 21, I ran out of money by November… It was packed with EVERYONE, and the monks and nuns on campus. Good times…
We had a great university-owned, student-run pub on the campus at Harvard Law School, right next to the student dorms — which made staggering home really easy (and stagger we did). One night, one of the regulars got so drunk that even the sympathetic bartender wouldn’t serve him. So the drunk pulled out his member and slurred something to the effect that “Mr. Johnson wanted to buy a beer.” The bartender didn’t miss a beat, and said, “We don’t serve anyone under three inches.” It was that kind of place.
Thursday night is a popular party night because the Fraternities and Sororities can rent out a bar for a lot less then on a Friday or Saturday night. More classes on Friday will not decrease Thursday night partying, unless the adminstration acts on the recommendation to allow the Greek organizations to serve alcohol on campus, they will continue to party off of it.
When did SMU stop offering Friday classes anyway? When I was there in the mid-1990’s, you had a choice of MWF or TTh. But it was impossible to avoid classes on Friday, because there were more MWF than TTh ones.
I was in the Business school and once you got into Major specific classes they were typically offered MW and TTH only. I believe it was like that for my friends in the other schools as well. I think the idea was to give you time for work/internships. But I, probably like a large percentage of the student population, used it so I could go out on Thursday night and sleep in on Friday.
I had Friday classes during freshman and sophomore years while taking required liberal arts classes.
This is most ridiculous idea ever. I went to SMU and we all went to bars on Yale and Dyer. I was underage and it was never an issue. I went to Tech before that and there was drinking at the Frat houses. Again all underage and not a problem getting booze. I recently lived off of Lower Greenville and had SMU students on either side of me. They had parties all of the time. A pub is not going to stop that. As for Friday classes, I had to take them and I had to attend. I have noticed that a lot of students and recent grads are not really prepared for school or life after graduation. I cannot tell you how disappointed I have been when I have interviewed them for internships or jobs. I am embarassed to be from SMU sometimes. Maybe SMU could fix that?
oh yes… Senior Bar at ND. Great times. If you couldn’t hook up at Senior Bar there was always the Backer
how about making Friday classes BYOB?
That is, in essence, what they’re proposing to do, dave.
no, i don’t believe that they are proposing that the students
bring their own liquor to class.
Um, yes, SMU still has classes on Fridays. DUH