In efforts to break down barriers between students of different social groups and to encourage more responsible drinking on campus, both the USG’s Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO) and the Alcohol Coalition Committee (ACC) have proposed that the University ...(back to the article)
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Pardon my ignorance -- I'm a few years out -- but what kind of bureaucratic garbage is the name "Committee on Background and Opportunity"? Is that an arm of the Ministry of Thought?
I would hope that alma mater would have enough respect for the language to come up with something less contrived and more straightforward.
Having said that, drink up!
You mean Princeton isn't a place where people of all races and backgrounds skip and hold hands in the 4-year colleges? Gotta love that image protection! My security word for this post is "damage"- how ironic.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Creating a campus pub is the LEAST of the problems that the COMBO survey brought up. Why don't the USG and administration release the real results?
This should have happened ages ago. Then we could be like a real college campus.
A university bar would be a great thing, but it will never happen. The town obviously sees it as a threat to the bar industry on Nassau, which is ridiculous as those bars don't cater to Princeton students. And I fear the University isn't going to push the issue against the town's complaints (as usual).