Going to Fordham University, I’ve always heard about the student friendly bars located nearby campus. I figured the colorful social dynamic at these bars would make for important observations that I couldn’t pass up. The Friday night ritual of going to the bars sounded as if it had its own mythos, with police raids replacing great floods and bouncers replacing riddle-making sphinxes. As such, I decided to leave campus on a Friday at around 11 pm to go to an area with multiple bars that were known to admit Fordham students under the age of 21. Essentially, I observed the act of “going out”. On the way to the bars I noticed a large, but hard to spot, exchange of people, ideas and even items. Most people moved in large flocks that tended to fuse and split spontaneously. There were parallel floods of students going out and returning home. From what I heard while eavesdropping, some students told others about what lay ahead--for instance, ”cover charges” at bars, or people they weren’t fond of--and others about …show more content…
What appeared to be the main bar was situated on a corner, while two other ones were to adjacent to each other on the next block and on the opposite side of the street. I focused my attention on the more important bar on the street corner. It comprised the first floor of a rugged, two story brick building. A long line of students, starting at the open door of the bar, snaked along the front of the building and around the sidewalk on its left side. I got in line and waited about five minutes to get up to the door. This was perhaps the most critical part of “going out”. Once it was my turn to enter the bar, I was approached by the bouncer. He was a tall, barrel-chested man with a wisp of hair on his head and a crooked nose. I showed this man my license. He nodded upon seeing the year “1996”, accepting my age as good enough, and proceeded to pat me down to make sure I didn’t have any drinks on
They all labeled downtown El Paso’s buildings. I looked at them, lost for I had no knowledge of what they were talking about. I was still just a bird hatching from the shell. I turned left and there it was, classroom A1518. The two large, dark wooden doors were opened and on top of them was the sign “ARCHITECTURE”. I stood there with my breath taken away from me. “So… This is it. This is why you came into Northwest. This is your purpose” I took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and continued on forward. Inside was a large room with computers on most of the side walls and desks the size of tables were located in the middle. All of the other students’ eyes were on me. I got even more nervous. They probably asked themselves if I was lost because of course, who would expect a 15-year-old to take an architecture college class? I walked slowly towards the 2nd desk in the front row. I sat in the tall black chair as the sound of the AC and the computer fans grew bigger and bigger. I’ve never heard anymore silence in my life. I opened my backpack’s side apartment and took out my pencil and place it on the side of the dark brown desk. I looked around and saw another room inside of
“Good Girls”: Gender, Social Class, and Slut Disclosure on Campus, Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Armstrong and J. Lotus Seeley
It is midnight at the last party I ever went to because I turned down a one-night stand with Rebecca from math class: Does this sound like you? Many college students seem to believe this to be a true statement. What if you just were not that type of person? Donna Freitas wrote, “Time to stop hooking up. (You know you want to.)”, published in 2013 with The Washington Post. Donna concludes, most students in college would rather go on a date than have one-night stands but fear their social status may be called into question. Donna begins to build her credibility with experience in hookup culture, quantifiable surveys conducted by
For me to fully understand people watching in three different locations helped me grasp the concept. The three locations I went to was the Waffle House at Orange County Community College, a local GameStop and at my own place of work Sam’s Club. At each place I had encountered different people. Starting at the college Waffle House almost everyone I observed was a student. They were doing homework or class work and most were eating lunch. At the local game stop it varies more. The people I saw were all buying some type of video game. I saw a lot of males and not to many females. On the rare occasion I saw a female it was a mother with her child. It seemed that teenagers were in there the most that night. The last place as Sam’s Club. I saw down by the food center and saw everyone walking buy with carts full of large items. Now I noticed what people were wearing and what impressions it first gave me. At the college Waffle house everyone looked pretty normal to me. Jeans and hoodies since it was raining out. The impression it gave me was that some of these people really don’t care. They seem tired. They just wanted to be
High school is over and it is your first time away form home, what are you going to do? The typical college student wants to party! Of the people that were surveyed over half believed that the legal drinking age should be lowered. [O’Kane 1] The legal age to drink in the United States is now 21 years old; college freshman, sophomores, and some juniors are not of the legal age to drink. This causes a problem on many campuses; several students are experiencing their first time away from parental care in a setting sinonomus with drinking and clubbing. Some feel pressure from family and friends to receive excellent grades while attending school, sometimes the pressure is too much and going out and
“Do you want to go out with us on Mill tonight?” I begrudgingly shake my head no, since I am twenty years old that means I truly have no business being on Mill Ave on a Friday night. Mill Ave offers a movie theater, restaurants, clothing stores, and plenty other places people can spend money, but on a weekend night, Mill Ave is cluttered with booze, and college students. It has somehow become a rite of passage for ASU students to head over to Mill and get as drunk as you can, for the cheapest amount of money. The street is filled with people, some drunk, some loud, and the brave souls that were trying to go to Mill for something other than the bars, people like me. The further into Mill, the drunker people seemed to be. Women were wearing short
The clock struck 3:30pm as I walked into my apartment on Thursday the 3rd after my MIS class. I proceeded to unlock my bedroom, put my bag down and get into my UA Wildcat gear in preparation for the first game. My fraternity brothers and I were all meeting over at our house shortly so we could all walk to the stadium together. I then proceeded down the elevator, out to Park Avenue, and started my walk to the house. The minute I stepped outside I overheard a group of girls talking about the football game. “I’m so excited to finally get back to the Zoo,” one said. “Football season is my favorite time of the year,” another one said. I continued to walk down Park Avenue where I observed various groups of students all getting excited for the first game of the year. As I passed University Boulevard the madness continued with the bumper-to-bumper traffic, mass amounts
Presidents of college campuses around the nation face issues of underage drinking and binge drinking on a regular basis and realizes that it is a danger and a problem. “Alcohol consumption is the third leading cause of death in the U.S., a major contributing factor to unintentional injuries, the leading cause of death for youths and young adults, and accounts for an estimated 75,000 or more deaths in the United States annually” (Wechsler 2010). Binge drinking can be loosely defined as consuming five or more drinks at one sitting for men and four drinks for women. Binge drinking amongst college students is a social activity that allows students to let loose and “fit in”.
Alcohol establishments are home to a plethora of subcultures that display clashing and harmonious interactions enjoyable for even the untrained human observers. Noticeably, bars contain the local regulars, occasional boozers, business men, college students, and multiple others, all there for a common goal, leisure. Whether the responsible sober driver, moderate drinker, or completely inebriated, every patron has exchanged workday courtesies for uninhibited behaviors. Additionally, lounges often exhibit social interactions between men and women which provide ethnographers opportunity to study the cultural roles considered masculine or feminine within our society and subcultures. Formerly, women employed in alcohol establishments were prohibited from managerial, bar keeping, or
Georgia State University Student, Auria Sanders, has become extremely skeptical about going out to her favorite bars in Buckhead after learning about a recent piece of legislation that had a unanimous vote in the state of Georgia. What could possibly have changed the script to where the well-being of a “typical night out” is even being thought of in a well-known subsection of the downtown Atlanta area?
Friends would come in to hang out, business meetings were held, and students did homework. It was a bar without the liquor.
As I was making my way downtown, walking fast, faces passed and I was home bound, I realized the opportunity I was missing last Friday night, to observe the nightlife of our beautiful city of Athens. Now, the nightlife of any town is full of people bustling about to and fro. Bar hopping, partying, or just walking down the streets and enjoying the atmosphere. Athens is no different than any other town, but upon further observation I found something that was quite concerning. This may seem like a juvenile or a predictable place to start, if you know anything about Athens itself, but it is home to a quite questionable moral. Many observations made while sitting and waiting downtown, consisted of stumbling, screaming, smiles, tears, and lots of laughter from these seemingly unrelated clusters of people. Most of these people appear to be under the age of twenty one, which is a big deal considering the new law “Michael’s Law” requiring bars to be 21 and over in Georgia. One boy was on the curb attempting to talk to a police officer through crocodile tears and hyperventilation. Call me crazy, but it is doubtful he was crying over a parking citation at 1:30 in the morning, reeking of alcohol. It can be inferred he was receiving a Minor in Possession of Alcohol, but it could be a parking citation. Another girl, was on the phone screaming, “You don’t even love me, why you can’t just get that it was a onetime thing! Oh my God,” in stereotypical sorority girl fashion. Throughout the
More than 98 percent of understudies live on grounds in residences. Rookies and sophomores should live in private universities, while youngsters and seniors regularly live in assigned upperclassman residences. The real quarters are tantamount, however just private universities have eating corridors. In any case, any undergrad may buy a supper arrange and eat in a private school eating corridor. As of late, upperclassmen have been given the choice of staying in their school for every one of the four years. Youngsters and seniors likewise have the choice of living off-grounds, yet high lease in the Princeton region urges all understudies to live in college lodging. Undergrad social life spins around the private schools and various coeducational eating clubs, which understudies may participate in the spring of their sophomore year. Eating clubs, which are not authoritatively partnered with the college, serve as eating lobbies and collective spaces for their individuals furthermore have get-togethers all through the scholarly
With deals on drinks and an agreement with the local nightclub,02, to open up for such an occasion it sounds like the perfect combination for an enjoyable night out. However, this is over showered by the small taverns’ wall being filled with drunken underage adolescence from the town. The narrow walls are swarmed with bright eyed brace face children flashing their home made IDs. Overall, this takes away from the comfortable atmosphere found during the weekdays. Getting one end of the bar to the other is a mission in itself without trying to catch the bartenders’ attention.
Upon arrival, we waited in the queue for about 10 minutes, the weather was warm and we were all chatting therefore this time passed quickly. Once inside, we had to wait another 10 minutes at the bar in order to get a drink. The barmaid then messed up one of our orders, which meant another 10 minutes trying to get her attention to change it. This put us all in a bit of a bad mood as our night was just starting out and things already weren’t going smoothly, plus, we just wanted to get away from the crowded bar and wander around and have a dance. The barmaid however, was super apologetic and gave us a free shot each to compensate which meant she was completely forgiven as far as we were concerned!