Tuesday, April 29, 2008
SMU president vetoes campus pub concept, approves adding Friday morning classes
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If you can't drink the night before class, there are always other options.
Though the SMU student senate was "overwhelmingly in favor" of a campus pub concept, SMU President Gerald Turner announced today that he will reject the idea. Moreover, he's hoping to add more Friday morning classes to limit the amount of Thursday night partying. Or, to increase the amount of in-class hangovers and vomiting.
Students cited problems in traveling off campus to drink, hoping an on campus pub would limit drunk driving, among other alcohol related issues. Turner's approach is to stress academics pursuits, like more homework and earlier classes, to teach responsibility, as opposed to touching on responsible socializing.
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Scott Doyle Verified
administrators will create more Friday morning classes to curtail Thursday-night partying
Ha, good luck with that. Attendance will be curtailed before the drinkin'.
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
They're seriously adding more Friday morning classes to stop people from drinking on Thursday? Why not add Saturday classes, too? Or maybe Sunday?
I foresee Friday morning classes with three people in each of them, and two of them will be the professor and the T.A. The student will either be the regional D&D champion, or will have wandered in there Thursday night in a drunken stupor and fallen asleep on a desk.
I miss college. :(
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Pavel, not all of us were useless drunks...at least, I was useful enough to wait until Friday night to get lit. Usually I had to work whether or not I had a Friday morning class that semester.
Doyle's answer: get a job!
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
I wasn't useless. I didn't sign up for any early Friday morning classes because I wasn't an idiot, and unless Turner fiddles with the scheduling in such a manner that EVERYONE will have a required Friday morning class, I think his plan isn't going to work out as well as he hopes.
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
What the hell are you squaking about? Nobody's talking about forced Friday classes, simply offering more. Probably correlates well with peeps who aren't responsible enough to register on time and get stuck with scheduling they don't prefer.
Could lead to a higher drop-out rate in the end. Let the irresponsible rich kids blow it, imo.
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
DC Anonymous
As long as there are mirrors in the Park Cities, there will be SMU kids doing cocaine.
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
John Meyer Staff
Here's the party line on why the pub proposal was vetoed, taken from President R. Gerald Turner's Executive Summary on recommendations for substance abuse prevention:
"SMU also will not establish a pub on campus because most students living on campus are first-year, underage students; upper-division students using the pub would then have to drive home to off-campus apartments."
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
I know nobody was talking about forced classes. l2r. I said that forced classes would be the only way to curtail Thursday night drinking.
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
ik2r, jfc. Hence:
Probably correlates well with peeps who aren't responsible enough to register on time and get stuck with scheduling they don't prefer.
Nobody expects it to stop Th drinkin', it's simply a disincentive to get obliterated. Curtail = okay to drink, just don't get retarded.
5 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
mustang01 Anonymous
I remember my college schedule. It was Sunday day drinks from being too hungover from thur, fri, and sat. MNF and $2 beers at the saucer, tue for $1 drinks gold bar, and a mixer on wednesday. The only way to keep me from having fun in college would be to schedule the classes late at night.
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Ashley Lyell Verified
I agree with the get a job sentiment. I'm not bitter about working full time through college and taking all night classes. Not at all.
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