It's the same across the country. In Denver's Mile High Stadium a year ago, police had to use tear gas to break up fights at the University of Colorado-Colorado State football game. This year, beer was banned in the stadium when those two rivals met, and the cops say they never had it so good. It's not just football. Wrigley Field in Chicago reviewed its beer-sales policy after players and fans of the Cubs and the Dodgers got into a brawl last spring.
Beer is a prime suspect for sometimes fatal mischief on the college scene.
On many campuses this fall freshmen have found it hard to find the beer busts they' d heard about from their big brothers. Spurred by cases of death and injury of students in drinking marathons, many schools are cracking down on hazing rituals and keg parties, especially when underage drinkers have access to the kegs. The link between beer and violence has been one of the least-examined aspects of society's problem with alcohol and other drugs. Least examined until now. The returns are in on new research about drinking and violence, and beer is getting the worst of it.