11-28-2018, 10:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-28-2018, 10:45 AM by danbrotherston.)
(11-28-2018, 10:22 AM)Spokes Wrote:(11-28-2018, 09:19 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: I'm so tired of this attitude, why not organize a real event. Germans wanted to drink in October, we have Octoberfest, blues fans want to drink and listen to blues, we have bluesfest, jazz fans want to drink and listen to jazz, we have jazzfest, rib and beer fans want to enjoy ribs and beer we have THREE ribfests. Students want to drink on St. Patties day, we have declare martial law and park dump trucks on a street to make it unpleasant day.
I'm so sick of this irrational hate for students. I'm not going to say the current situation is good, but as far as I can tell, it's better than what the vast majority of people seem to want, which is to bully students away from the city. An actual smart city would do it's best to work with people to arrive at a mutually beneficial solution instead of trying to dominate one group.
It's not a hate for students, it's a hate for the curent situation.
You can try to do an organized event, I just don't think it's going to work. If you're a student who's under age, are you going to go? Nope, you can't. Do you want to pay for the price of drinks when you're used to just buying and bringing your own? Nope. Even if you did create a legitimized event, you'd still have a large population of students doing what's going on on Ezra just elsewhere.
No one's advocating bullying students out of the city, but what's going on now doesn't work in any situation.
It's never even been tried, the whole city has gone straight to "shut it down"...I remember how this feels as a student. ANY solution that is ONLY "shut it down" is by definition not working for all the people involved. Suppressing people rarely works out well, best case, you drive away a lot of students who might otherwise have settled in the region. The point of creating an event is to guide the situation, instead of suppress it, and, plenty of students under age go to other festival events in the city--heck, there might be some who are glad there are other activities from drinking.