This year in particular, there has been a big emphasis on cutting back on student drinking. The punishment for people caught drinking underage has become more strict with no warning given first and phone call home to parents. The college has expressed their view of drinking but the festival does not seem to go along with the image the college is tying to establish. Many people like to drink and we are sure that it would be a good way to draw a crowd. It just seems to go against everything our school stands for, or what we think the school is trying to promote.
Speakers come in throughout the year to talk about the dangers of drinking.
We have all learned at the problems that come about as the result of alcohol such as people getting into fights, date rape and alcohol poisoning. A festival that ignores these consequences should not be something Brockport and BSG puts its name on. The shuttle to the festival location is one way to cut down the numbers of accidents that happen. However, the festival flyers are advertising go-carts. We think so.