UF president seeks to curb alcohol sales at UGA-Florida game

By King Gator

Jul 5, 2009 4:43 PM | Link to this

Who needs the booze when you win just about every year? I guess the team's fans that lose about every year do. Ha Ha - Go Gators! I don't mind drinking the bubbly after the Orange and Blue win another National Championship! Enjoy sipping that still made hooch from your mason jars dawgs and celebrating things like .. 2 weeks, no arrests! Preseason #1, our blackout's always works, except against Bama, women with tooth, hating on our jorts, Gymnastic titles, Lindsey Scott, td circle jerk celebrations and only losing to the Jackets by 3! Go Gators - National and SEC Champions again in '09!

By Dylan

Jul 5, 2009 3:37 PM | Link to this

good luck on stopping shots @ the Landing. Yet another great idea to hurt our economy. Kind of like cap and trade for alcohol. If your going to die of alcohol poisioning I do not think its going to happen at Jacksonville Landing

By FloridaDawg

Jul 5, 2009 3:36 PM | Link to this

What does the University of Florida do to curb their drinking?
Are they not always at the top or near the top "party schools" in the United States?

By Reader

Jul 5, 2009 3:30 PM | Link to this

This is so funny. Nobody actually agrees with the UF president. There is more to life than just booze, you don't need alcohol to have a good time you ignorant hillbilly's.

By Michael

Jul 5, 2009 3:30 PM | Link to this

It's funny reading comments extolling the American right to buy booze, get drunk in public and how college presidents are tyrants. I bet if a bunch of our darker brothers and sisters had a drunken street party you all would be calling for enforcement actions, arrests and cancellations of these events. Oh yeah, it was called Freaknik in Atlanta and you already got rid of that.

By Travis Hill

Jul 5, 2009 3:10 PM | Link to this

I'm sorry but the Presidents of the Universities these days do nothing but play "God". These Presidents are acting just like our politicians in legislating morality...(Like it has been said above)...This is a personal issue, not an issue for the government to be used....

I am a proud Libertarian who does not do drugs...I rarely drink..and when I do I only have one or two drinks. But guess what...I am totally ok if you want to screw up your own life....An Alcoholic is going to get his/her booze from somewhere else if they do not sell it in Duvall County. And Drug addicts will always find a source to buy there drugs as well...The government causes the black market that gets innocent people killed!

85 dawg...the UF President has a point....but we as Americans are letting our government get away with more and more control of each and every citizen...year after year. Start being more responsible for your own kids and family and things will take care of themselves...Stop trying to get government involved with everything!

I urge everyone to write to the UF president and give him hell acting like this...but believe me...he is probably a pompous *** just like most other college presidents...

By Michael

Jul 5, 2009 2:58 PM | Link to this

Drunk, passed out co-eds -- what's wrong with that? Without alcohol the human race would have gone extinct a thousand years ago.

By bamadawg

Jul 5, 2009 2:53 PM | Link to this

What ever happened to personal responsibility? You cannot legislate morality...maybe parnets of drunk college students should step up at home before it is too late!! Enforce the drunk laws and fill the jails like New Orleans does at Mardi Gras...a financial boom for the city coffers in fines will pay for more officers that weekend...remove obnoxious drunks!

By dawggirl

Jul 5, 2009 1:35 PM | Link to this

85 dawg-

I understand your point, but no matter how much alcohol is sold in Jax, that won't change the fact of people getting drunk. I can't even drink that much, due to my low weight and history of seizures, but this is not the right way to go about the issue, trying to control an individual's right to purchase and consume alcohol. Maybe if Florida students were better educated, or could learn to simply control themselves, we wouldn't have these kinds of tragedies.

By UGAfan4life

Jul 5, 2009 1:24 PM | Link to this

When did presidents of universities start being able to control the economy of an entire city? Who is he to decide what businesses can sell alcohol and what can't? Is he going to refund all the people that would lose money from this? I am disgusted that because some people are idiots Machen wants to take away civil liberties!