Dartmouth College Bans Most Napa Wine from Campus

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/us/in-response-to-student-misconduct-dartmouth-to-ban-hard-liquor-at-parties.html?_r=0

The money quote: “Officials said the ban will apply to any liquor that is 15 percent alcohol — barely more than most wine — or more, and will take effect when the spring term begins March 30.”

My alma mater has always been interested in training its students to be well-mannered adults, and obviously, inculcating appropriate preferences in wine is now part of that mission. I say, kudos.

I support banning the Napa stuff, but I am upset that this also means no Sherry!

No more Port and Stilton for the Hanover set?

Green key weekend will never be the same without funnels of 'purp. No more ballin.

Next they should work on turning out well adjusted nice people who have just a tiny modecum of humility.
If drinking 12% abv makes one well -mannered, where the f*ck did you go wrong?

More beer pong!

Until you’ve domed with wine, you havent lived. And I’ve domed with wine. The purplest of purple drank.

I don’t know, Mike, but you’d be right at home in Hanover - it’s very shilly up there.

In my four years there, I don’t remember drinking a single drop of wine…

Let them drink Texier.

Well this is the second time I have been rejected by Dartmouth. Hopefully I can be wait-listed with the Albarino, Syrahs and rose and they will let me in after a few months like when I was 18.

Please take my name off Wilder Hall…

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

I’m amazed. I think being at Dartmouth was a big part of getting into wine. Back then (10-15 years ago), the NH State Liquor store had a burg buyer who gave a crap, and there were tons of decent burgs that would go on sale and you could pick up for nothing. There also was - and continue to be - a remarkably decent wine store in Norwich - a bit pricey but well curated. You could drink very well in Hanover for very little. . .

Kind of weird to tell folks who are 21 or older they can’t drink. Wonder if this will apply to the grad students or just the undergrads. I’d be more impressed with Hanlon if “Moving Dartmouth Forward” had included a tuition freeze. Hope they don’t try to sneak in a campus speech code in as part of this.

Students are no longer allowed to speak of wine in excess of 15% alcohol… ;^)

Guess you can’t get trashed and do stupid stuff on just beer and wine. The devil is among us and it has more than 15% ABV.

The scary part being, the people leading this institution are supposedly well educated?

I remember periodically going into the NH state liquor stores also a decade or two ago and being pleasantly surprised. They also gave me a stock list which they could/would special order stuff, had to be case lots, and again the prices were superb. I used that a few times when living in New England.

Perhaps the Dartmouth leadership doesn’t care much for the “Live Free or Die” state motto?

Andy, I am 14.8% on that.