I write to wish COTTonLINE readers a happy St. Paddy's Day. Wear your green, avoid the green beer.
As I've probably mentioned before, my university decided spring break would always include St. Patrick's Day. They did this for a very good reason.
Before this policy was instituted, with students on campus on March 17, the kids took it as a challenge to see how drunk they could get. If we had no deaths from alcohol poisoning, it wasn't from lack of trying.
Fearful of damage suits and bad publicity, the U concluded whatever students did when school wasn't in session wasn't their fault. There was going to be a weeklong spring break sometime anyway. Why not be sure that Get Drunk Day, as it became, occurred during spring break? And so it did.
