EveryJoe » Minnesota http://www.everyjoe.com Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:24:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 No More Booze at Minnesota? http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/no-more-booze-at-minnesota/ http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/no-more-booze-at-minnesota/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:50:35 +0000 Allison Boyer http://www.everyjoe.com/?p=74318 Post from: EveryJoe

No More Booze at Minnesota?

]]> Earlier this month, Minnesota announced that may ban alcohol at all college sporting events. I can just guess how well that went over for students, but how do you guys feel about it?

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Some thoughts I have:

  • Having alcohol at the games at Penn State isn’t dangerous, so I can’t see how it would be at Minnesota. The people who get so drunk they can’t see are typically students who walk home, and the drivers are responsible most of the time. There will always be incidents, but not enough to ban alcohol.
  • The possible ban stems from state alcohol disputes with the school. The liquor licensing control board says that they have to offer alcohol to everyone at the stadium or to no one at all. So instead of making beer available to people in the stands, they’re going to take it away from people in club areas. Yes, that makes tons of sense.
  • All this is going to do is make people hide their alcohol or binge drink before getting to the game. Those things are a lot more dangerous.

All in all, its a bad decision to ban alcohol at any college sporting event. Control, yes…but ban? No.

Your thoughts? Leave a comment!

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No More Booze at Minnesota?

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In pursuit of an Olympic Dream

]]> Liz Podominick left the Minnesota women’s basketball program to pursue a spot on the U.S. Olympic track and field team. She is the fourth player that the team has lost in two weeks.

Podominick is a sophomore on the university’s track and field squad. She hopes to get in the U.S. Olympic Team and compete in the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

In track and field, Podominick was the first freshman in Big Ten Conference history to win both the outdoor shot put and discus titles in her rookie season. She was named Big Ten freshman of the year and went to the NCAA Championships in both events — placing 10th in the shot put and 17th in the discus.

Though she values the time she has played Basketball with the Gophers, she strongly feels that she has to consider her future since openly expressed her desire to be an Olympian. In order to achieve that goal, she believes that she has to start the proper training toward it.

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In pursuit of an Olympic Dream

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