GU Drinking

Georgetown University enforced more rules to try to stop excess drinking on the campus and in housing owned by the campus. Once news of the new rules spread around campus students became outraged and began to protest (qtd. in Kinzie). Although I'm not big on under aged drinking or getting drunk every weekend, I don't think that Georgetown University should suddenly enforce strict drinking rules and expect students to follow them. Dan Castrigano, a student at GU says "Eighteen-, 19-, 20-year-olds are going to drink. You just have to be smart about it." which is completely true to me (qtd. in Kinzie). Since students between the ages of 18 and 20 have been drinking on the campus before the strict rules, they will continue to drink afterwards, but they will just be more secretive about it. I think the university should continue to have events on campus that are not focused on drinking, but at the same time accept the fact that excessive drinking will happen on or off the campus and try to set rules that ease up to the strict rules enforced now. One student says that the university “can't just suddenly clomp down, put all these rules in after letting people do whatever they want for so long" (Brown qtd. in Kinzie) which is understandable and many students would agree with her.

Georgetown University created new rules to limit drinking on the campus and I think that was a very smart idea of them to do (qtd. in Kinzie). I do not like under aged students to be allowed to drink on a campus when it is illegal and get away with it. Students are still allowed to host parties on campus as long as there are two 21-year-old people registering for it and know that there is only one keg allowed per party (qtd. in Kinzie).