CREDIT: SCOTT DUNLOP Bartender Christopher Ewert pours beer in the Grawood pub on Dal's campus.
Posted on 03/04/2003 7:59:49 AM PST by Loyalist
Bartender Christopher Ewert pours beer in the Grawood pub on Dal's campus.
Pub crawlers at Nova Scotia’s largest university have heard their last call.
Dalhousie University has banned the boozy events, where large groups of students band together to visit strings of bars.
“The university doesn’t approve of or condone pub crawls, and we will not permit them to be advertised or organized on campus,” said Eric McKee, vice-president of student services.
“In some respects, relatively high-risk alcohol-use behaviour is involved, and we are not in control of what goes on during pub crawls. They occur off campus, and we want to be clear to everyone that we’re not responsible for that.”
Dal could be held responsible for any mishap during a pub crawl, he said.
“Our insurance would not protect us against a liability claim arising from a pub crawl event, so we’re just saying we don’t want that responsibility.”
Drunk students could fall and hurt themselves during pub crawls, McKee said.
“The most obvious thing is a person could drive themselves home drunk and be in an accident, and injure themselves or someone else,” he said.
They might also become crime victims while walking home, McKee said.
“They could be mugged or attacked,” he said.
The ban is not meant to prevent Dal students from drinking.
“Students on university campuses have been going downtown to consume alcohol for decades, and we’re not out, necessarily, to stop that,” he said.
But Dal isn’t prepared to take responsibility for them when they don the silly T-shirts and take to the street in noisy, staggering groups.
“Particularly if you go from place to place, it’s more difficult for the people serving you to keep track of how much people have consumed,” McKee said.
“The other thing is that with a pub crawl goes a tradition of drinking a lot.”
Students only have themselves to blame for the regulation change.
“It was our student leaders that raised it with us,” McKee said.
“They were concerned about the question of liability and responsibility.”
Students can still stage parties at Dal pubs, McKee said.
“We’re not in any way cracking down on the use of the licenced premises on campus. There, we are in control and we are responsible,” he said.
“The difference is with the organization of these pub crawls that go off campus, in a sense with our name attached. We simply want to be very clear to everyone involved that we’re not taking responsibility for those.”
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What is becoming of Halifax, Warden of Honour of the North, city of endless bars and taverns?
But what they mean are faculty-sponsored events. Ultimately they don't want inebriated students lolling around wearing "Dal PolSci Drunkfest" t-shirts.
So is driving. And sex. And not studying. And cramming for exams.
"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
How would a law restricting establishments who legally sell alcohol to those of age do anything to reduce high school drinking?
So? Why did you bring minors(high schoolers) into a discussion about adults(college kids)?
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