No drinking ANYTHING outdoors on campus....

[flowomo]

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=403318&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=9/28/2005

For Siena, glass is completely empty

To maintain security, college outlaws drinking beverages outside dorms

By KENNETH AARON, Staff writer
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

COLONIE -- There's a new drinking policy at Siena College.
No drinking.
Of anything.
Even water. Or iced tea. Or coffee, Red Bull or lemonade. Or vodka or beer, for that matter, in case anybody gets any bright ideas.
According to a policy dated Sept. 17, students are "no longer allowed to consume alcohol or any other beverage in any type of container outside of their townhouse or in any public area on campus."
College officials maintain the rule is meant to increase security after a spate of off-campus party crashers showed up early this semester, and police responded to noisy gatherings outside student apartments. Some outsiders were arrested for burglarizing apartments during those parties, using the hurly-burly for cover.

(more at link)
School is in Loudonville, outside Albany, NY

[tompayne1]

1. that is just weird

i can understand the alcohol but any type of beverage?

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Students put alcohol in the non-alcohol conatiner

and get away with it that way. Yes a small few ruin it for the rest.

[pitohui]

9. sure they do and so what

you can tell by behavior & smell who is drinking, heatstroke kills, diabetes kills

don't kill ppl because you have a hard-on for booze

[CatholicEdHead]

10. Of course you can

I am playing devil's advocate here pointing out the reasons. This rule should be dropped.

[pitohui]

13. got it & i agree EOM

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[nankerphelge]

2. so lame...

I would stand outside the dean's office and chug bottle after bottle of water, with middle finger extended.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. They may think it is everclear, gin, vodka,

or something like that.

[greyl]

8. You mean like they think wine transubstantiates into blood? nt

[Botany]

5. note to Sienna ..... is this still on?

6th Annual Siena Festa Vino
October 13 at 5:30 p.m.

Location: Siena's Athletic Recreation Center
Contact: 518-783-2430 or e-mail [e-mail]
www.siena.edu/alumni/SpecialEvents/FestaVino.asp

Taste the World’s Best Wines...Sample the Capital Region’s Best Restaurants . . . A benefit for Siena’s Globalization Program, Saints Alive, and a scholarship in memory of Christie Tolosky ’03. Presented by Rose & Kiernan Inc. and All Star Wine & Spirits. Contact the number above for reservations or for corporate sponsorship.

:rofl:

[greyl]

6. It's a Catholic school - what a shock.

The rule is very stupid, but I don't care too much because it's not a public school.

[pitohui]

7. is that safe

the first person to have serious illness from heatstroke is gonna own that campus

you cannot deny ppl the right to drink water

that is just cruel

[greyl]

11. They'd better install some drinking fountains out there, eh? :)

[flowomo]

12. how long do you think....

this little piece of authoritarian silliness is going to last? Or are the students there really that submissive?

[seabeyond]

14. god we are a stupid society and gonna just get more stupid

and this is the world my kids are going to adopt. going to be about impossible to stay out of jail by the time they hit their rebellious 16-18