National Marquette Day Student Partying Concerns MU Leaders

[Macallan 18]

https://marquettewire.org/4133037/news/record-numbers-of-alcohol-related-emergency-calls-and-hospitalizations-on-nmd-this-year/

For the old timers, was this just a typical Saturday back in the day?

In the Academic Senate meeting, leadership said the later the tip off of the game the more out of control students get. Would not be surprised at 11 am tip offs for future National Marquette Day games.

At one point, there was an hour wait for an ambulance, and Marquette staff was triaging students in the lobbies of dorms.

At the residence halls, staff confiscated 47 BORGs (black out rage gallons) — gallon jugs filled with hard alcohol and flavored water — and had to start telling dozens of students to go outside and dump them once it became too overwhelming to confiscate all of them.

Arcuri presented photos of students in stretchers in the lobbies of dorms and students passed out and receiving care in dining halls. At one point, ORL was told to triage, assess and call MUPD who then called for an ambulance to help regulate calls for ambulances.

When the wait for an ambulance became an hour, MUPD called Bell Ambulances and told them to just park ambulances on campus. Gannon said they would drive students to the hospital and then immediately turn around to come get another student.

[tower912]

We know.  Thank you.

[rocky_warrior]

I'm oddly really proud of these kids.

Sure beats the last crop that eschewed alcohol.

[MU82]

We used to call that "Thursday."

Seriously, this is crazy shyte.

Back when the drinking age was 18, drinking (especially beer, but other booze too) was more routine (for lack of better word). Marquette had a bar in the student union. Dorm residents were encouraged to throw floor parties. There were fliers on dorm walls about which local stores had the best keg prices, which bars had $1 pitchers, etc. Lots of bars on campus, all of them packed on Fri and Sat nights.

Maybe now that it's "forbidden" for all but 21+ year olds, it's more of a freak-out any time there is an event?

I don't know. Just musing here. We had plenty of drunk-fests back then, too, though I don't remember any of the people I knew having to go to the hospital, and certainly not dozens of hundreds.

[The Sultan]

Students are drinking way more potent stuff than most of us did back in the day. It can be a problem.

Also students don't drink as often which means they may not be great at pacing themselves.

[rocky_warrior]

True, we may have drank similar things, but we put it in a 16oz cup, not a gallon jug!

I'm sensing an "Introduction to boozing it up" should maybe be a required course.

[BrewCity83]

True, we may have drank similar things, but we put it in a 16oz cup, not a gallon jug!

I'm sensing an "Introduction to boozing it up" should maybe be a required course.

We called that "High School".

[MUfan12]

Also students don't drink as often which means they may not be great at pacing themselves.

That was my reaction to the story as well.

[PointWarrior]

"black out rage gallon"  - the names it self spells out the problem.  Drank plenty at Marquette, drink in my old age now, at no time did I ever want to "black out."  Especially today, how many things can happen in a black out stage.  I don't understand the coolness of blacking out. 

[The Sultan]

We called that "High School".

Students drink even less in high school than they did back in the day.

[#UnleashSean]

Sounds like a pretty huge over reaction by someone. People being triaged in the dining hall? Come on.... We're there actually that many students dying of alcohol poisoning needing their stomachs pumped?

That many needing to be rolled over into a life saving position? I'm calling foul on this.

[#UnleashSean]

Read part of the article.

29 calls over the course of the night. 14 who actually went to the hospital. There's no way this isn't just a normal night for marquette first responders.

Either someone in resident life massively over reacted, or this article is exaggerating.

[tower912]

Apparently, they are still all hungover tonight.

[The Sultan]

Sounds like a pretty huge over reaction by someone. People being triaged in the dining hall? Come on.... We're there actually that many students dying of alcohol poisoning needing their stomachs pumped?

That many needing to be rolled over into a life saving position? I'm calling foul on this.

Read part of the article.

29 calls over the course of the night. 14 who actually went to the hospital. There's no way this isn't just a normal night for marquette first responders.

Either someone in resident life massively over reacted, or this article is exaggerating.

"Rick Arcuri, executive director for Business Operations, said he's been at the university for 40 years and has "never seen anything like I've seen this year on National Marquette Day."

Do you think he's lying?

And I will tell you that 29 calls and 14 transports to the hospital isn't close to a "normal night." You honestly think 14 MU students are routinely transported to the hospital? Are you kidding?

[#UnleashSean]

Sorry last post. I started to read the article. It was pretty laughable with the overreaction. But then I read this.

"Not only were students being taken to the hospital, before staff were able to transport them, 14 students were disrespecting either staff or MUPD in the residence halls."

- I couldn't continue. That was too stupid.

[GB Warrior]

How do we know this wasn't an elaborate roofie plot by the dental students

[The Sultan]

Sorry last post. I started to read the article. It was pretty laughable with the overreaction. But then I read this.

"Not only were students being taken to the hospital, before staff were able to transport them, 14 students were disrespecting either staff or MUPD in the residence halls."

- I couldn't continue. That was too stupid.

Stupid is thinking that 14 students transported to the hospital is a "normal night."

[Skatastrophy]

11 am tipoff is just a kegs'n'eggs opportunity.

We used to wander over at 4am during the '02-'03 run to get to the Bradley Center, and it's not like we were sober.

[Jockey]

Young men and women should never consume alcohol. We all know drinking will lead to pot smoking.

MU should arrange some nice church services for the youth to show them alternatives to the demon rum.

[Shaka Shart]

How do we know this wasn't an elaborate roofie plot by the dental students

High on Ivermectin

[JWags85]

"black out rage gallon"  - the names it self spells out the problem.  Drank plenty at Marquette, drink in my old age now, at no time did I ever want to "black out."  Especially today, how many things can happen in a black out stage.  I don't understand the coolness of blacking out. 

Its more just an attempt at a "edgy" name.  College kids drink to get super wasted, its no different than it was 50 years ago.  Thinking kids back in the day were just getting pleasantly drunk off a couple draft Schlitz pours is revisionist history.  I'd be very surprised if BORG mixtures are all that different than jungle juice or hairy buffalo that have been campus mainstays across the country for ages.

[Galway Eagle]

I've been out of college for 11 years and it's been 16 since I started. Four lokos, vodka with crystal lite, the vortex bottles, ice beer, were all common just to get wasted quicker and cheaper. Not to mention the drinking games.

That doesn't even cover my old jungle juice recipe that i just found an old photo of:

Bottle of Everclear, bottle of light rum, handle of gin, 3 handles of vodka, bottle of each of sour Apple pucker, peach schnapps, triple sec, 99 apple, 99 mixed berry, four bottles of boones farm, and a 12 pack of redbull.

I know I'm hardly one of the older people but it's laughable to be surprised that segments of college students are partying hard on a Gameday we make out to equal homecoming

[The Sultan]

Its more just an attempt at a "edgy" name.  College kids drink to get super wasted, its no different than it was 50 years ago.  Thinking kids back in the day were just getting pleasantly drunk off a couple draft Schlitz pours is revisionist history.  I'd be very surprised if BORG mixtures are all that different than jungle juice or hairy buffalo that have been campus mainstays across the country for ages.

I'm not making stuff up when I say that college kids in general don't drink as often as they used to, but when they do they drink more potent stuff.

[BrewCity83]

I'm not making stuff up when I say that college kids in general don't drink as often as they used to, but when they do they drink more potent stuff.

I wouldn't dispute this at all.  We all (my group of friends) drank pretty much every night, but it was largely just lots of cheap beer, with the occasional smattering of shots thrown in for fun.

[The Sultan]

I wouldn't dispute this at all.  We all (my group of friends) drank pretty much every night, but it was largely just lots of cheap beer, with the occasional smattering of shots thrown in for fun.

Yes. Furthermore, "occasional drinkers" are getting themselves in trouble by going right to the harder stuff. They're not sipping on Miller Lites or Bartles & Jaymes like they were back in my day.