November 23, 2005Sports, students and drinkingAs Virginia Tech fans prepare for the final home football game of the season Saturday, they might be interested to read this article in USA Today about colleges cracking down on alcohol advertising and drinking outside and inside stadiums. Alcohol is not sold inside of Lane Stadium, but anyone who's been to a game knows there's plenty of drinking beforehand in surrounding lots. Students have told me they tape mini-bottles to their legs and girls put them in their shirts to avoid detection when entering the stadium. Colleges are trying to put a limit on alcohol consumption before it reaches the level of professional sports, where beer flows freely in stadiums. The Washington Post recently published an article about alcohol-fueled rowdiness in the stands. Tech's Alcohol Abuse Prevention Center is conducting a study where they take fans blood alcohol content after games. Researchers have found that a significant number of people still have elevated, if not necessarily illegal, blood alcohol levels after leaving games. Only about five percent of those surveyed were students. Saturday's game will be the last day of research for the study. So when you're leaving the game you may run into folks other than police officers interested in how much you've been drinking. |
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Comments
[November 27, 2005 1:33 AM]
Hokie Explorer : →http://www.explorevt.net/The United States might be the only country in the world where alcohol is as regulated as it is. For example, in most countries, the drinking age is non-existant. I think that government control encourages the culture that leads to its misuse. In other words, the more authorities try to regulate alcohol, the more it will be abused. Don't believe me? Look what happend with prohibition.