Comments on: How Georgetown Day lost the beer garden and inflatables

By: @@@Eric Mooring

@@@Eric Mooring — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:45:31 +0000

No, I was being completely serious when I wrote that I believe helping someone do a keg stand exemplifies the Jesuit value “men and women for others.”

By: C/O 2011

C/O 2011 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:22:05 +0000

I support @georgetown day forever. Everyone knows a no-pants party is the best party.

By: Georgetown day forever

Georgetown day forever — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:32:35 +0000

Let’s get naked.

By: @@Eric Mooring

@@Eric Mooring — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:19:32 +0000

While helping people out “when they’ve had one too many” can be meritorious in a sense (depending, of course, on the nature of the “help” that is offered) , let me pose this question: Wouldn’t an even better way to be a woman or man for others be to exhort your friends and peers to not have so much to drink that they end up needing help for having “had one too many”? Let’s be proactive, folks.

Also, I hope that the line about keg stands is tongue-in-cheek. If the purpose of a keg stand is to consume large amounts of alcohol quickly, then it is obviously a binge-drinking related behavior. It is ridiculous to think that facilitating binge drinking could seriously be argued to be a genuine way to be a woman or man for others.

By: @Eric Mooring

@Eric Mooring — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:16:59 +0000

“How does it exemplify Cura Personalis? How does it exemplify being Women and Men for Others?”

Well, I am woman for others when I share my alcoholic beverages with them. I am a woman for others when I hold my friends up to do a keg stand. I am a woman for others when I help ‘em out when they’ve had one too many. And trust me, I definitely take care of my “whole person” on Georgetown Day.

By: not typical anymore

not typical anymore — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:58:51 +0000

Anyone who thinks that any changes to Georgetown Day don’t have everything to do with the neighborhood issues is fooling himself.

I guess this just means I’ll have to go back to putting booze in a Gatorade bottle…

By: typical

typical — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:11:46 +0000

I love how being an alumni magically puts one in the position to be “ashamed” or “embarrassed” by the activities of students.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:45:09 +0000

As an alum, I am embarrassed by these comments.

By: G DAY LOVAA

G DAY LOVAA — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:20:36 +0000

Honestly, THIS DOESN’T MEAN I’M NOT GONNA BE DRUNK. This is the first year I would’ve been able to legally partake in the beer garden, so that sucks, but it’s not gonna stop me…and it sure as hell will not stop underclassmen who want to be drunk. To all of you who think the behavior on Georgetown Day is an embarrassment to the school, guess what: LEARN HOW TO HAVE FUN. Yes, this doesn’t mean drinking for everyone (whatever to each his own), but since freshman year I’ve been under the impression that Georgetown Day is FOR the students…For paying $50,000+ a year to go to a school that hardly gives back to them. To celebrate the community i.e. the students. While the fact that the administration could give two shits about their current students makes me sad, I’m not going to let this rain on my parade.

By: Agrees with "Way to go, Voice!"

Agrees with "Way to go, Voice!" — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:58:01 +0000

sounds about right! Sneaky, sneaky administration…