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(08-18-2019 09:49 AM)KCat Wrote:  Need to have a $5 beer at the games...

Actually saw Kid Rock on New Years Eve here in Louisville a few years ago. They actually had the “Kid Rock $5.00 beer special” before and during the show. I’m not sure what brand it was but after a few it didn’t taste too bad.

(08-22-2019 08:42 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  

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(08-18-2019 04:49 PM)ucbandguy Wrote:  I remember hearing, as UC joined the Big East, that we had to get a special waiver from the league to sell beer at our football games.

I am not sure how true that was. However, as I remember the WV fans in our stands, I can believe it. Most of them sitting near us were using the game to sober up. They were in awe that beer was actually sold in the stadium.

I remember hearing that as well.

I found this article from 2016 which says that in the Big 10, only Minnesota and Maryland allow beer sales to general seating. Surprised Wisconsin isn't in that group. Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, and Northwestern are dry in the whole stadium.

The whole stadium makes some sense because it's at least consistent. But I always thought it was odd to make it only available in luxury suites. For workers, it's a fireable offense to have alcohol on campus. For students, it's a huge fine and potentially getting kicked out of school. For middle class patrons, you'll get escorted off campus & arrested. But if you're wealthy, then it's ok.

Really, its a fine and potentially getting kicked out of school for students these days? When I lived in Calhoun, we used to have pony kegs in our room with great regularity. Other students would stop in a get a glass when on a brief study break.

Ok, I'm exaggerating that one. It's not that way for everyone. But it is that way for fraternities on a lot of campuses nowadays (including my undergrad alma matter Case Western). When I was an undergraduate in the early 2000s, it was a $1000 fine for having a keg on campus property but pretty much anything else was winked at. But a few years ago, a fraternity got kicked off campus when a drunk non-affiliated freshman showed showed up during a party & was denied entry. They were a byproduct of misguided zero-tolerance policies - now the party scene has moved off campus where it's completely unregulated.

If students were kicked out for having alcohol on campus and getting busted by their RAs, half my floor during freshman year would've gotten the boot.

On our campus (Case Western) RAs weren't allowed to search inside any personal items. They could look in the university-issued dresser, but not in my personal fridge. So when anyone knocked on the door we'd just put the beer in the fridge before answering. My freshman RA was so by-the-book that he was only going to write us up if he caught us red-handed.

My sophomore year I lived in my RA's 6-person suite. He bought booze for me.