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New Report Urges NCAA to Ban Alcohol Advertising
By BRAD WOLVERTON

A report to be released today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest calls on the National Collegiate Athletic Association to ban beer advertising at sporting events and during televised sports broadcasts.

The report, "How the NCAA Recruits Kids for the Beer Market," argues that the NCAA actively tries to attract young consumers to its brand, and by doing so exposes young people to beer advertisers.

"The NCAA is the beer industry’s pied piper among children," said George A. Hacker, director of the alcohol-policies project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in an interview yesterday. "Members of the NCAA’s Executive Committee should take that into account as they decide the appropriateness of beer advertising during NCAA telecasts."

The center, which is a Washington-based consumer-advocacy organization that promotes health and nutrition, issued its report as members of Congress are considering legislation to put an end to alcohol advertising during college games.

Yesterday, Rep. Tom Osborne, a Republican from Nebraska and former head football coach at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to get behind a measure that would eliminate beer advertising during college sporting events. Earlier this month, Mr. Osborne offered an amendment to the Higher Education Act, which he later withdrew, that would ban beer ads at games and during college-sports broadcasts.

At a meeting next month, the NCAA’s Executive Committee is scheduled to discuss possible changes to its alcohol-advertising policy. The policy permits 60 seconds of beer advertising to appear during televised NCAA championship events. The NCAA prohibits advertising for hard liquor during its telecasts.

Bob Williams, a spokesman for the NCAA, said in an interview yesterday that the association's Executive Committee probably will not revise its alcohol policy during its August meeting. He added that committee members will discuss how the NCAA might work with conferences to change their alcohol policies. Conferences determine how much alcohol-related advertising colleges are allowed to accept at campus sporting venues, in publications they put out, and during telecasts of their games.

The report will be available today at <a href='http://www.cspinet.org' target='_blank'>http://www.cspinet.org</a>

There is a huge drinking problem on college campuses. I am 100% for the ban.

Sounds like big government trying to make itself bigger. We are talking about legal adults that can fight in a war and such. Some one pass me a Sam Adams while I ponder this.

My question is this... Why are beer commercials tolerated and not hard liquor? In Kentucky we produce far more hard liquor than beer, since we have no national breweries here. Wouldn't it be more beneficial for Kentucky to use hard liquor advertisements?

I guess the "big" beer companies have better lobbyists in DC than Hard Liquor does. I'd be willing to bet that the politicians in DC drink more hard liquors than beer though, so the Hard liquor lobbyists should jump all over that.

Okay, did any of what I just said make a bit of sense? I re-read it twice and I can't make heads nor tails of it.

DUFUS Wrote:There is a huge drinking problem on college campuses.&nbsp; I am 100% for the ban.

The drinking problem won't go away. No matter what you do.

Maybe, RBM, you could stick this up in the Sports Bar for other fans to see it also and show what they think.

I'm not sure I buy the causal argument. As I posted on my home board, I think the elimination of tailgating maybe next. Seems like it is a double standard to ban advertising yet allow tailgating to happen. Besides, tailgating is a staple of American culture. Do you need alcohol to tailgate? No, of course not. But drinking on campus has been an age old problem, and tailgate is just a natural extension of groups getting together, hanging out, and drinking some brews. And without tailgates, you can't get those liquored-up alums to pry open their wallets and donate.

Raider, I will cross-post and see what others think. Good idea. I don't stray much from the WKU board. No reason to. They give me enough to raise my blood pressure as it is!! :-)

We do our best RBM! Just wait until basketball season or until someone on Haven thinks we're going to another conference. Then it will really get fun.

BTW, if you've got blood pressure problems I know some meds that will help take of it. I have to take them everyday, but my BP is doing great!

Well speaking of yahoos on the new Havenite board, can someone post on the thread "Harvard of the South" that Murray State already beat y'all to the punch on the association to the Ivy Leagues? Our slogan is "Kentucky's Public Ivy University." Someone's neurons isn't firing properly over there - we co-opted this idea a few years ago. :-)

Big Squirrel, it would probably be easier to stop visiting this board all together...but what fun would that be?

Speaking of which, I anted up for the new server. I made a donation so I could have the privilege of *gently* abusing Topper fans. If you're a poster, and haven't ponied up your dough yet, do so. I want to be able to enjoy my privilege in the fall semester!!!! :D

I don't think there are many Havenites that want to be the Harvard of the South I know I don't, all those Ivy league schools are just a little too snobby.

Beaureguard Wrote:I don't think there are many Havenites that want to be the Harvard of the South I know I don't, all those Ivy league schools are just a little too snobby.

I agree with Gilbert over there, I want Harvard to want to be the Western of the north. :D

They ban beer advertising, Diddle loses a cornerstone sponsor.

It wouldn't bother me at all though. I think advertising alcohol on a college campus does send the wrong message.

Speaking of alcohol advertising... I'm not sure how this ever happened, but my freshman year of high school (at Warren Central, 1989/1990) there was a hugh Bud Light billboard across the street in plain view from any classroom on the street side of the main building. How sad/horrible is that? You know, if you can peddle crack within so many yards of a school, then why can you openly promote alcohol?

Same arguement was made in Bardstown a few years ago, that got heated because distelliries in that town so it was :saber:

Well billboard advertising is akin to tailgates. So there is no advertising on programs, etc. What's to stop Budweiser from planting a truck smack dab in the middle of a stadium's parking lot to support tailgating? Yeah yeah I know...the NCAA...they probably have rules up the wazoo about what can and cannot be in a stadium parking lot during a football game...still seems kind of stupid to consider banning advertising when your tailgates are a big "advertisement" in the first place...I'm telling ya...the tailgates will be next to become extinct...and then we'll see what kind of "fan support" results in the wake of sober alums...ha they might remember the hassles of the registrar's office, bursar and bookstore instead of the "good 'ole days"... not exactly conducive to raising $$$...

What is wrong with this picture? Ban advertising...but sell alcohol as a fundraiser...


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