Going a bit too far
College campuses do have an alcohol problem. Always have … always will. I don’t expect anyone to ignore the problem but some solutions are just plain screwy. Case in point … the City of LaCrosse, WI.
This article in the LaCrosse Tribune caught my eye.
Reforming a city policy on alcohol in parks could be the La Crosse Alcohol Oversight Committee’s last action.
Members voted Tuesday to disband in favor of a second task force, which would review the committee’s progress since it convened in 2004.
The oversight committee is one of 19 recommendations an initial task force drafted to combat the drinking culture after University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Jared Dion drowned in the Mississippi River in 2004.
Chairwoman Dorothy Lenard said her committee successfully checked all but two of the 19 eliminating drink specials and establishing a detox center off the list. She said it will be up to the 15-person task force whether the oversight committee reassembles.
With one foot out the door, the committee gave tacit approval to a plan to regulate alcohol in parks.
Parks Director Steve Carlyon offered a revised plan to prohibit alcohol at city beaches, pools, school and neighborhood parks or within 1,000 feet of a play structure without a permit.
So, if I lived within three football fields (900 ft) of a city park with a “play structure”
I would not be allowed to have a beer in my own backyard without a permit?
Just how is that going to “combat the drinking culture” at UW-LaCrosse?
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