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 I was going to do this weeks article on being sexiled but more important things came to mind. After learning about last weeks article where “its better to go to basketball games drunk, otherwise the camera crew will have more fun than you” led to students not attending the game because they had not pre-partied led me to believe that more people read my article than I had previously thought.
So set forth I bring you an article not relating to alcohol but, lets get emotional here, things you can do that are not alcohol induced.
I live in the townhouses as many of you may know, and every night I get calls from people all over campus of “are you partying” and usually the answer is yes. Since I spent $1,000 on getting my piece of shit car repaired I’m broke and I can’t afford to pay for parties so I tell my friends who come and party to bring the booze. They have since gotten to the point of “no, we’re not doing that anymore.” So what do you do if no one is paying for the booze? You go and find other things to do.
As I learned from one friend, whom I view as my best friend at Pacific (my real best friend is at UNR, one of our rival schools) that “people drink because they want to be accepted and forget about things.” This made me realize why I started drinking in the first place.
I originally came to Pacific (it was called UOP back then) because of their strict alcohol policy. Despite what you may think, in high school I was hardcore against drinking in general. Then I joined the cheerleading team, shocker I know, and I learned that inorder to be popular at this school you had to party hard and drink often. So I became just that, an “alcoholic.”
Now as a senior, where the cheer team sucks (sorry but its true, its not even guy to girl ratio), and the majority of the students / staff population reads my article I find myself learning on others and how life doesn’t revolve around alcohol. There is more to life then getting drunk EVERY night of the week and going to basketball games drunk and going to class buzzed.
I find myself saying that I’d rather go spend $10 on a movie downtown then spending $10.99 on an 18 pack of Bug Light at Safeway, or I’d rather go to Tahoe for the afternoon than play Beirut in the afternoon in good ol’ Stockton. The point being, there is more to college then just getting drunk.
A reporter for The Record taught me, college students have an expendable income, meaning they have money to spend on whatever. We as students can go to San Francisco and see a show and still have more sober fun than sitting around our dorms / apartments getting wasted and listening to the same music and doing the same crap that we do every weekend. Or we can go to Lake Tahoe and go skiing and spend a day getting exercise and enjoying ourselves than getting drunk and forgetting about what we did the night before.
Sure, students in the townhouses seek me out on any night of the week that ends in “Y” and come and forget their issues, to which I am usually in support of, but you get to a point in your life where everything can’t evolve around alcohol. You realize there is more to life then getting drunk and that instead of sitting around and being a bum, you got to get out and do something.
So next time you’re feeling down, lets go somewhere that you have never been and explore that town. Its what I did in high school, and now as a senior in college I am doing that exact same thing again. Lets go to Carmel and walk around and enjoy the shops, but if you’re from Carmel, come with us and show us a good time, alcohol free. I hear there is a good beach there.
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