No one has a right to do anything on someone else’s property. The land is university land, not the students’. Students go earn your own property THEN you can do whatever legal stupid thing you want on it. Until then you are dead weight for your parents and society and have no rights. And most of you haven’t paid a dime in taxes so don’t lecture responsible tax paying citizens about civil rights.

You are so correct. These students have every right to do the stupidest things they can come up with. This one is way up there! Have at it kids! Now, hospital workers and ambulance drivers, get ready, these kids are ready to waste your time by excersising their civil rights. Please pay to have extra crew at the ready for these amazing displays of stupidity. Hey parents, arent you proud your kids were smart enough to get into college?

I didn’t drink in college, and look at me know I’m a 35 yr old virgin. don’t let this happen to you.

YES IT IS, ALCOHOL IS A CIVIL RITE

Anyone who drinks to get drunk has a drinking problem. I am now 65 selldom drink anymore but used to, Never did I set out to get stoned or drunk.

@clare, You’re a moron. Stay in school

Nasty

It’s called In Loco Parentis. Colleges and Universities have a legal repsonsibility to act in place of a parent to keep the students safe even from themselves. The old addage “not while your living under my roof” applies.

A university can ban products from their campus if they want to. There are plenty of public and private universities that do not allow any alcohol on campus, even if you are over 2.

This pertains to all the clueless people leaving comments on this blog regarding ‘student rights’…it’s sad that i even have to point this out…maybe you all need to go back to grade school and start your education over.
Point is all colleges have conduct codes and rules that students have to adhere to…violation of that code which all students have to agree to can mean expulsion or other levels of punishment. A hazardous and potentially fatal drink as Four Loko can easily be regarded as infringing on the safety of other students, to include the student drinking it. Also, parents that have kids at these colleges put a certain amount of responsibility and expectations in the school to look after their kids who, though technically adults are seriously lacking in real world experience and maturity.

Campus Life policies & procedures
Student Conduct Code

The college has adopted a Student Conduct Code to protect the rights of students, faculty, staff and the college itself. This code ensures that the Columbia College learning community is one characterized by mutual respect, civility and good citizenship. Columbia College students, as members of the academic community, are expected to accept and adhere to these high standards of personal conduct.

The school can keep anything off their campus they want, you twits!

Sure, blame the JOOSE, its always the JOOSE!

The problem is not necessarily alcohol in and of itself but the potency of the drinks. In the 70′s we never drank anything other than beer which made it almost (but not entirely) impossible to come down alcohol poisoning. It just took too long and require too much volume of beer to get there. Kids these days are drinking much more distilled spirits or the high alcohol drinks mentioned in the article.

Someone should take a look at who is producing and how they are marketing these drinks.

This stuff and Joose don’t mess around. One of our friends who weighs 220lbs. basically chugged a can and got us booted out of four working-man’s casinos due to inebriation (we are all mid 20′s and seasoned veterans of the sauce). You aren’t kidding.

sorry, was on the phone while typing. as long as you are of legal age you should be allowed the choice of a legal product. and again, clare you are a dimwit.

as long as you are legal, having your own choice is dimwit. it’s a legal product.

College is a place to transition into adulthood and prepare for life. As a society, we’re becoming crippled because of this Nanny-state mentality.

Since when did drinking copious amounts of alcohol become a civil right?

SIX (at least?) out of 16 had that drink and they blame the drink and ban it? What about the, at least, TEN others? Sounds like there’s some other factors at work here that might need to be banned as well….like ALCOHOL?

David, you’ve got to be kidding, right?

Oops, colleges should NOT teach students how to make beer, wine,, etc. I think that since the government isn’t going to do much to stop alcohol consumption, if the colleges do it first, maybe they can convince corporations to ban it from their company as well. I used to work for GE and every employee had to sign a contract whereby the employee was subject to termination if they were drinking during work hours, Unfortunately, they would still serve alcohol during dinners after business hours at company events. I thought that the company should have taken a harder stance on the subject, but I guess they didn’t want to ban it completely.

21 is the legal drinking age you communist prick. Somebody should teach you what this country’s founding was all about. I’m sure the UK would appreciate your progressive/socialist views. Where have our liberties gone??? Where have the adults gone? It’s called choice. If a 21 year old wants to make a bad decision let them. It’s their freekin right.

chester i have completed your challenge twice this afternoon already.

they do have a right to put in their bodies whatever they want that is legal, you twit

plenty of colleges allow of-age students to have alcohol on campus. why shouldn’t it be allowed? if they’re of age, they should be, though alcohol possession is not a civil right, as “zodiac mindwarp” (above) seems to think.