What are we to think when we hear the Alumni Association preaching anti-alcohol messages, but then observe thousands of alumni inebriate themselves prior to home football games? What are we to think of the fact that the best and brightest our university has to offer can only think to throw legal resources at the problem, instead of treating it as the public health concern it is? Or that the state and administration are trying to legislate what rational adults do with their own bodies? Or that calling an ambulance for an intoxicated friend means a possible police citation? Or that our local police are open with their belief that alcohol related crimes necessarily take precedence over any others? Or that our own mayor refers to us as "the drinking class"?

It's a disgrace. In the jihad that the state and administration have waged against the consumption of alcohol at the collegiate level, they have not looked back to see the legions of casualties left behind. Their militaristic approach to the problem is stopping meaningful discussions on alternative methods of prevention, and in the process making the matter worse. They are waging a war on alcohol, and students are seeing through the hypocrisy of it all. They are wasting our time and money.