What's Rice Like?

FallenAngel9
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:15:35 +0000

Reasons for 11 hospitalizations:

Increased security for the most significant public party of the year

An EMS policy that took a “better safe than sorry” approach to an even greater note than normal

The public party is the largest public party of the year, so naturally people will be inclined to “party harder”

I didn’t go to NoD, but I think it’s getting bad press that it doesn’t deserve. If people got stricter on alcohol, that would push a drinking culture underground as it does at other dry universities. People will hide their drinking and resort to binge drinking more frequently. This is a very dangerous culture, and as such the wet campus culture is actually more safe.

Furthermore, people drink to the same or greater magnitude at most other colleges in the U.S. The only reason people were hospitalized in such a large amount was because of the policy of safety that EMS took. At other universities, those same exact people would be left to sleep it off or something. That could be good if that’s really all the people need, but more often than not it’s dangerous.