Posted on 03/03/2014 3:35:49 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Students who arrive in State College on Saturday for the annual State Patty's Day drinking holiday will find the majority of downtown restaurants and taverns closed or dry, Penn State officials say.
Damon Sims, Penn State's vice president for student affairs, said 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.
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I think it’s very wise
With 45,000 undergrads I’d imagine this scandal weary town/campus estimated it was money well spent if not an investment in preventive maintenance
Good for them
I pray for st pats intercession every week when I see his familiar statue at mass
He probably asked for and got divine intervention for this
"Students who arrive in State College on Saturday for the annual State Patty's Day drinking holiday will find the majority of downtown restaurants and taverns closed or dry"
The bars will be open March 17th, for what it's worth.
P.S. the city should try paying off the bars to be closed during the gay pride parade just to cut down on the washroom sex antics of the lavender mafia. Don't want things getting "too out of control".
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Thanks!
Thanks carriage_hill for the heads up
Some of my favorite St. Patty's Day songs
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