Alcohol Shock Outrage!
by Harriet Geoghegan on Wednesday 2th February, 2010.
Finally we are getting some amazing weather and there is nothing I would rather do than sit out in the sun on the OUSA lawn on a picnic rug borrowed from OUSA. But alas! Duty calls.
I am looking forward to the extravaganza that is Orientation Week. The timetable is up & I'm picking which gigs to work at and which to get tickets for. But at the same time I’m bracing myself for the media onslaught that happens every year. We students nationwide get named and blamed for anything drinking related (even though it’s only a few… you know who you are…). However, the master’s games village outside my window last week was a reminder that we aren’t the only sector of society that goes a bit crazy after a couple of drinks!
Whenever I meet former students (ie ‘oldies’) they rattle off yarns about what they got up to at University. What we do is nothing in comparison… (Coincidentally, most of these occasions are drinks functions.)
We’re also blamed by association when no Otago student is even there – such as the local horror at finding some people in Oamaru had partied on their pristine beach http://www.oamarumail.co.nz/local/news/outrage-over-beach-party-debris/3909678/ (“looks more like Carisbrook Stadium after a student-attended cricket or rugby match“ the newspaper spluttered aureately).
So why is it a big deal when it’s us? I didn’t see any ODT reporters down here snapping photos of the age 50+ Master’s Gamers stumbling round our campus. But when a few students took it too far at the Toga parade last year: international news headlines!
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G, Friday 12th February, 2010
So true. But then again 50+ year olds aren't half as attractive as a swarm of 18 year olds scantily dressed in white sheets.