11-28-2018, 11:06 AM
(11-28-2018, 10:37 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(11-28-2018, 10:22 AM)Spokes Wrote: 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.
For the record, I never once said shut it down, I just said, this is an issue and the status quo isn't working. I too remember what it was like to be a student. But student culture in Ottawa is very different than it is here.
We need to find a solution that works for everyone, because as you mentioned this could have a negative impact on keeping great students who would settle here.
As I've said all along, the status quo doesn't work, but I'm doing nothing to solve the problem, because frankly I don't know what to do to solve it. So you're better off than me because you've got an idea, I'm just skeptical of it's success because they already tried something similar and it didn't work.