COTTonLINE wishes our readers a happily abstemious St. Patrick’s Day. The centuries-ago conversion of Ireland to Roman Catholicism is no excuse for drinking oneself blind in the modern era.
The university I retired from got so fed up with cases of student alcohol poisoning, it began scheduling spring break each year to include the 17th of March. The cynical thinking was that if our students were on vacation when they drank themselves to death it was the parents’ fault, not ours.
Ironically, the revised schedule actually reduced binge drinking somewhat.
