PENN-sieve

Last year, the bars in State College opened at 8am on Saint Patrick's Day so that PSU students could celebrate the holiday in grand ol' drunk before noon fashion. Apparently it was really big hit and students were even intoxicated in class. Woo Hoo - what a nightmare.

This year, St Patrick's Day falls in Spring Break and after all the controversy about how "the university planned this so students could not party" died down, one student in his infinite wisdom decided that it would be a very good idea to move the set in stone St. Patrick's Day so he could party in downtown State College.

Initially, his idea was met with great enthusiasm by the local bars who saw the flow of money coming into their establishments. Several bars planned to allow students to purchase wristbands and hop from bar to bar but they soon pulled their support from the moving of St Patty's when the community admonished them. The community uproar was loud and the university prepared a slew of non-alcohol activities for students to participate in instead of venturing downtown.

Unfortunately, the call to drink could not be ignored by the students. T-shirts were created; beer coozies were sold; everything that could advertise the new State Patrick's Day was sold to the masses. Evidence of drunken residents could be smelled as early as mid afternoon and reports of endless public throw-up has been reported (and it is only 1140pm as I write this).

The fun loving part of me thinks this is so cool and fought gallantly with the more responsible, university official that knows going downtown would have not been a good idea. It's almost midnight and I am home for the night. Damn this being a responsible adult crap!