I ve noticed a disturbing trend on this campus in recent months, one that threatens to mow down what we students hold dear our beer. Jill hosted a series of alcohol-free parties earlier this year in order to implement her insidious plan, and while I did not attend any, I heard they weren t much fun. I love feeling that third beer s warm alcoholic glow spread to my cheeks, I love the sense of community that arises between drinkers, and most of all, I love getting drunk. Too many Oberlin students never learned how to talk to strangers, and luckily, alcohol helps them grow socially so that they can develop the social skills needed outside of college. Those inane pamphlets neglect to mention alcohol s other positive effects.
Alcohol imbues the drinker with newfound strength.
The answer swims in the booze. Another benefit of drinking is the loss of inhibitions, and every anti-alcohol pamphlet I ve ever read implies that this side effect is undesirable. Too many people live under a mantle of fear, one that disables a natural impulse toward spontaneity, and alcohol often helps them regain that instinctive inclination toward impulsive fun. And, the last time I checked, fun was not a bad thing. In fact, I support fun even more strongly than I support alcohol because, after all, alcohol is merely a tool by which we attain the blissful state of revelry called fun.