Georgetown's administration has essentially failed to take a cohesive stance on campus culture and instead has put together a string of rather reactionary decisions. It is completely understandable that the administration wants to do away with underage drinking and binge drinking on campus, but it's going about it the wrong way. Rather than sit down and formulate a long-term plan for a Georgetown way of life that's both fun and dry, it has simply gotten rid of things that it didn't like and left students to their own devices as to how to keep themselves entertained. If our leadership expects to effect a real change in this university's culture, it needs to spell out a coherent, thoughtful proactive stance. Whether or not a university administration can actually eradicate alcohol culture is at best debatable, anyway.
Alcohol culture exists.
College kids will drink. That's not to say Georgetown should just give up and let everyone imbibe to excess, but it is a fact. Walking home intoxicated on Prospect Street is not safe. Outside SportsFans, a bar that Georgetown students have been known to visit, someone even got shot. No one is suggesting that the administration bring back the Pub, but eliminating our last big on-campus gathering means creating one more night when students will be bothering the neighbors at parties on R Street or making the dangerous journey home from M Street at 2 a.m.