# College Students, St. Pat's, and Chuggin' Brewskis **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 14, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-students-st-pats-and-chuggin-brewskis/161392 "2003-03-14T17:42:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-students-st-pats-and-chuggin-brewskis/161392/1 "2003-03-14T17:42:09Z")
Yeah, I was a college student. I was at LSU, too, which has a reputation for being a big party school. And it must’ve been, because even though I’m a big honkin’ geek, I spent a fair amount of time at the Bayou (RIP), the Varsity, and the Chimes. I lived in Tigerland and knew exactly how popular Sport’s (sic) Illustrated and The Tiger were (especially at 2:30 am when drunken fratboys would be yelling at each other under my window, “Dude! I tried to call you!”). But here’s the deal. In the college town in which I currently reside, a huge deal is made out of “party holidays” - Cinco de Mayo, Mardi Gras, and, of course, St. Patrick’s day. Here it’s usually “unofficial St. Patrick’s day” since it often falls during Spring Break. And bars open at 10am. My wife will often have students wander into class on that day who are clearly drunk. She’s had students seriously suggest that class be cancelled on that day because “it’s a holiday”. Now like I said, I know college students like ‘em some drinkin’, but really do they need excuses? If they’re gullible enough to fall for “come drink early and often in celebration of some holiday you’re only barely aware of!” why not just announce “National Pass Out in the Street Day” and bring them in for that? I guess what I’m trying to say is, why go through all this trouble to make the drinking occasion somehow “special” or “meaningful”? Getting college kids to drink is like getting anime women to show their panties - they do it anyway, for no reason whatsoever. So why work at it? What am I missing here? ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-students-st-pats-and-chuggin-brewskis/161392/2 "2003-03-14T18:08:25Z")
A day of celebration for one is a day of celebration for all. “Drinks for all and all for drinks!” - Official motto of the Drunkskiteers ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-students-st-pats-and-chuggin-brewskis/161392/3 "2003-03-14T18:29:16Z")
IANA drinker, but shouldn’t they be called \*\*O’Brews \*\*for St. Patrick’s Day? StG ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-students-st-pats-and-chuggin-brewskis/161392/4 "2003-03-14T19:24:37Z")
Ahhh, St. Patrick’s Day, another “holiday” that falls under the heading of “amatuer night.” Just like New Year’s Eve and a few others. These are days when people who don’t normally drink all day do so, resulting in a bunch of car wrecks, bar fights, vomiting and other nasty side effects. If you are not a daily, morning, or heavy drinker, please don’t start now, you’ll only hurt yourself (and maybe others). Leave it to the professionals, we know who we are. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-students-st-pats-and-chuggin-brewskis/161392/5 "2003-03-14T19:28:44Z")
Too right!!!