Once again a commenter on an article captures the essence of a situation. Central Michigan’s lousy football team drives people away.
Students stay away, and they don’t even pay for tickets. So the problem is the desolation of the empty stadium.
Like a lot of other universities with this problem, CMU is now trying to solve it by dousing the students with drink. There used to be a limit on how much you could put away, but now —
For the upcoming fall tailgating season, the university released a new policy that changed some of those former guidelines, including the limit on alcoholic beverages per person and mandating students stay in a specific lot.
Students can now reel from tailgate to tailgate, and they can drink all they want.
CMU is spinning this desperate strategem as a great advance in safety … or something… UD‘s having a little trouble understanding the athletic director’s statement about it.
“If you look at this policy compared to the previous policy, there are no significant changes, but there are a series of very very important changes,” Deputy Director of Athletics Derek van der Merwe told Central Michigan Life. “Every aspect is stressing responsible behavior and defining acceptable behavior. We want responsibility, and that’s left to the individuals.”
August 21st, 2012 at 2:15AM
he Wrote that, er, he wrot that, ah, he write that after he implement the policy, but, as an individjul, zown sponsbilty
August 21st, 2012 at 2:45AM
jeremy: Your explanation had not occurred to me…
August 21st, 2012 at 7:31AM
“If you look at this policy compared to the previous policy, there are no significant changes, but there are a series of very very important changes,”
C’mon, give the guy credit. I’ve seen many, many spokespersons nullify their own statement in the next paragraph. The masters can do it in the next sentence. All this guy needs is a comma.
August 21st, 2012 at 8:54AM
It’s Tailgate Buddhism: we may stress, we may define, we may want, but everything stays the same.
September 28th, 2013 at 12:20PM
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