College Food News: No More Beer In 30 Years?
Britain’s Daily Star is reporting that in 30 years the world’s beer supply could be in jeopardy because a hotter climate could be bad for barley crops (the main ingredient in beer that gives it it’s alcohol content). Now, granted, the article is from the Daily Star tabloid, and we’re sure science will fix this by then, but it’s still scary to think about.
The actual news came out of New Zealand’s Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention, where climate scientist Jim Salinger said: ?It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up.”
ABC News doesn’t get so post-apocalyptic on its reader: it just warns that we’d better be ready to see increases in beer prices. As if prices weren’t already high enough? Damnit.
BREAKING: College kids start the weekend on Thursday
Thank You, Captain Obvious: We thought it was just common knowledge that college kids don’t respect the sanctity of things like weekends and sensible bed times. As proof, please allow me to reference Animal House’s tagline here:
“We can do anything we want. We’re college students!”
However, it’s just been revealed to the adult, grown-up world (who already knew) that college students start drinking and going to the bars on Thursday, not Friday. The repercussions of this story will be far-reaching, indeed. Expect legislation any day.
Actually, let’s all be honest here, mostly we start on Wednesday (and sometimes Tuesday, if it’s a bad week). But a newspaper in Northwest Arkansas called the Morning News seems to have just caught onto this trend, publishing an article about a week ago headlined: Thursday: The New Friday? College Students Redefine When The Weekend Starts.
It just gets better from there: apparently, students skip classes on Friday in order to go out drinking on Thursday. This is a shocker.
So, in honor of this fine piece of fluff, we’re giving out our first “Most Obvious Piece Of Journalism Ever” award. Morning News, you’ve won. Keep doing what you’re doing - telling us what we already know.
Wait, you’re NOT allowed to drink beer in class?
In what’s being called a “pour decision” (Ed: not funny) Boston University has canceled an advertising class as it investigates whether students were allowed to drink beers in the class.
Apparently, one of the class assignments was to create and market an imaginary beer. College kids will be college kids, though, and they went ahead and brought samples of beer into class to drink to show how they would use it in their advertising campaign.
Personally, I’m gonna go ahead and say that this is probably making a Big F****** Deal out of nothing at all. Kids drink in class all the time. (Ed: administrators, he’s totally lying) But hey, maybe it was a slow news day.
And on that note, dear readers, please enjoy your Thanksgiving Break. And for all you kids who don’t get your precious vacation time just yet, drink a beer for me. In class.
(College Ave. thanks Andy at The Big Spoon for the tip)?
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