[Red in Blue PA]

What a horrible waste of money by the state!

Like the students will not simply celebrate on another day?

WTF?

[N. Theknow]

33 of 35 downtown State College establishments, including all taverns and bottle shops, have agreed to accept monetary compensation offered by the university for a moratorium of the sale of alcohol Saturday.

The other two will be packed!

[EDINVA]

I’m not familiar with the PSU “State Patty’s Day” circumstances, but when you think of the damage a large number of drunk students can do, it’s probably cheaper to pay off the bars and disperse the crowds among several venues. Breaks up the mojo.

Think, i.e., of the NCAA championship games, following which, almost invariably, the school’s host town is trashed, cars overturned and burned, real property destroyed. I don’t know if that behavior is involved in the “State Patty’s Day” history, but wouldn’t surprise me if it is.