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4/14/2012 9:56:38 PM
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University to ban Alcohol because 20% of students are muslim
[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/apr/12/university-alcohol-free-zones-muslim-students]University where 20% of students are Muslim considers alcohol-free zones
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[quote]A London university is considering establishing alcohol-free zones on its campuses because so many of its students consider drinking to be immoral.
Professor Malcolm Gillies, vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, said the selling of alcohol was an issue of "cultural sensitivity" at his institution where a fifth of students are Muslim.
Speaking to a conference of university administrators in Manchester, he said that for many students, drinking alcohol was "an immoral experience".
"Because there is no majority ethnic group [at London Metropolitan], I think [selling alcohol] is playing to particular parts of our society much more [than to others]," he was reported as saying in the Times Higher Education magazine.
He said he saw little reason for the university to subsidise a student bar on campus when there were "at least half a dozen pubs within 200m".
He told the Guardian the makeup of his institution had changed considerably over the past few decades. In the past it had been "substantially Anglo Saxon now 20% of our students are Muslim," he said.
"We therefore need to rethink how we cater for that 21st-century balance. For many students now, coming to university is not about having a big drinking experience. The university bar is not as used as it used to be."[/quote]
[Edited on 04.14.2012 1:59 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] NewRadical12 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos ...Why are people upset by this again?[/quote]Minority whims infringing upon majority freedoms...[/quote]Yeah, no. You're just being a very silly person and making a huge deal over something that most universities have had for a very long while. As we speak I myself am sitting in my room on the second floor of the Ridgeway Kappa Dorm at Western Washington University. Guess what? The entire floor is Alcohol Free. We all checked a little box when we applied for dorm rooms that said we would be cool with living in an Alcohol Free Community. Nobody forced us to live here. Does it bother you that if you were to come to visit me, you wouldn't be able to drink to your heart's content? It shouldn't bother you at all, because while you have the freedom to drink, the university has the freedom to do what it wants with it's dorms. Because, you know, it's the University's Dorm, not yours. If your definition of freedom is being allowed to drink wherever the hell you want, then I really pity you.[/quote] That's different. If the students and staff wished it to happen, that's fine. But clearly these students want to drink, and why should 20% outweigh 80%? If the staff and students are ok with drinking, whose right is it to suggest that areas which now have students that drink must be deemed alcohol free zones? That's wrong. No one's forcing the 20% to drink, and even then, it's not like every single area is covered with drinkers. If they want to have their own place, they can, but don't make areas which students currently use to drink alcohol free zones.
