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OPINION
Prohibition Tomorrow, Re: “Atkinson gives Cornell Eleventy-Billion Beans for Sustainability” News, Halloween!
While David and Patricia Atkinson’s eleventy billion-dollar donation to Cornell may
Prohibition Forever!
seem like a sign of the couple’s genorosity, in reality they are nothing but two-bit cheapsakes.
It was a cool autumn night at the Whiskey Point Beef and Beer when David and Patricia
strolled in looking for a drink. Since he was a wearing an ascot and smoking a pipe, I could
tell David was ready to spend a dollar or two, so I acted accordingly.
For the next five hours I poured them drink after drink (he was drinking Old Fashioneds
WHILE THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE UNIVERSITY while she drank Pabst). Twice David threw the drink back in my face for being “two degrees
Recognition Policy are too timid and Greek-friendly to be considered a signifi- too warm,” and twice I wiped the drink off my face and fixed another one without com-
cant step forward in the War Against Drinking, the Trustees would be wise to plaining.
approve them. We, along with every other moral and sane person on this campus, Finally, they’d had enough. David sent Patricia out to the car and stayed behind to take
hold an unfailing belief in the ability of all students to abstain from drinking. In care of the check. And would you guess what he tipped me? Take a wild guess? On a $100
lieu of the full prohibition of alcohol that we all want and desire, the changes to check he tipped by 18 measly dollars. I typically get 20 percent at least. What blasphemy!
the URP are a positive first step toward snuffing out alcohol and all its rueful Butch Bunkis, bartender, Whiskey Point Beef and Beer
effects.
The signs that each sorority house has been mandated to hang on the sides of
their houses by the administration, “LIPS THAT TOUCH LIQUOR WILL
NOT TOUCH OURS,” show how the War on Drinking is, at its core, driven by
us, the students, who reject the antiquated notion that college kids like to drink
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alcohol from time to time.
In the past, college students unthinkably enjoyed and celebrated the drinking Come on guys and girls
of alcohol. With games like Pong Beer, Cup Flip and Sink the Ship to The Very
Bottom of the Pitcher of Dasterdly Alcohol, drinking was considered a “normal”
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social activity that students used to unwind after a long week of studies.
Moreover, students considered drinking a glass or two of wine while studying
AN OKAY THING TO DO. This is indicative of how wayward and morally It’s like Perez Hilton except it’s all
bankrupt students were in past years. about Cornell and maybe you’re
Today is a new day. The taps at Dunbars dispense only warm, homely apple
friends will be quoted in an article.
cider. In spring, students take to their porches in the evenings to play a few games
of Pass to Plunket (for those of you who aren’t yet aware, this game involves a ball
of yarn and a teapot and is simply divine!). And on Friday and Saturday nights stu-
dents typically discuss the unsustainable, ungodly amount of work they had to do It’s pretty much a more vulgar, less
during that week, thus bringing back all of their anxieties just in time for bed. All censored version of College ACB.
without the blinding force of liquor.
Now, to the Trustees: Approve these proposed changes at all costs. Yes, pro-
hibiting freshmen from fraternities parties is a rash move that will change the
It works like them other websites with
Cornell social life in ways that no one, neither student nor administrator, knows.
And yes, there is zero evidence that this will make students safer and it is troubling the computer and stuff. mailbox... think about it
to realize that students will be binge drinking in sunafe environments where med-
ical amnesty does not apply. But, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald in his anti-
alcohol classic The Great Sober Gatsby, “fuck safety, this is alcohol we are talking
about.”
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