OXFORD (AP) Some visitors to the U of Ms had a sobering lesson on the new campus alcohol policy when they returned from the game to find their booze had been poured out. Others said the policy, which allows people to drink hard liquor but not beer, just doesn't make sense. It's a Lafayette county regulation that still bans beer and allows liquor and wine. The campus' new policy prohibits anyone from distirbuting alcohol and allows police to dump out booze that's left unattended. The measure is meant to stop "underage drinking and flagrant display of alcohol, because then the assumption is that it is being distributed," said Jeff Alford, associate vice chancellor of university relations. "What we want to limit is open bars, open containers available to anybody, public displays of alcohol." When people moved to the stadium for the game, police checked coolers and dumped out gallons of beer and liquor. Some people were angry, some not. Some said it was nice with fewer drunks. Some said the officers were taking people's private property. "They're going to go into some prominent alumnus' cooler, and all hell's going to break loose," one man said. Others just shrugged it off. The school recently unveiled a new smoking policy that restricts tobacco use to 30 designated spots on campus. That didn't go over too well with everyone either. One man refused to put out a cigar, saying he didn't care about the policy. "I just smoke on special occasions, and this is a special occasion." Figures on arrests and incidents not immedately available. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I don't have any sympathy for people who get sloppy drunk and/or obnoxious drunk in public, but frankly the whole thing sounds illegal to me. Destroying public property in a non-emergency situation with no court order or opportunity to respond sounds like it's just begging for a lawsuit.
o: :angryfire Is it just me or is Cal-Berkeley's administration taking over Southern Schools? 30 designated places to smoke on campus? Are you f***ing kidding me? If I was a prominent alum I'd get the entire alumni organization to cease any contributions until this foolishness came to an end. No drinking? How long until no talking?
Tiger Baiting will have a one month jail sentence and/or $100 fine....Hotty Totty is mandatory................ :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
They have been checking for bottles, etc. for several years. I remember at the “Eli on his a**” game, they were taking water bottles, flask, everything – there must have been 50 bottles under one Cedar tree just outside the stadium. Ole Miss has always played up the academic credentials – Rhodes Scholars, etc. Now they are probably just trying play down the “party” image. It may also be partly in reaction to that incident a couple of years ago when an assistant coach got a DUI or something like that during a recruiting weekend. Also, Lafayette County has always had some odd alcohol laws (that liquor by the drink, but no beer sales always struck me strange). But, like it or not, whether we feel it is right and just or not, we are going to see this more and more.
