State Patty’s day is a make believe Penn State holiday. It is just another excuse for allowing all Penn State students and actually all Pennsylvania college students to drink and party no matter what their age is. The one benefit to this excuse is that students actually can party more on this weekend. Whoever invented the term “State Patty’s Day” should feel very proud. An excuse for drinking and acting crazy has reached its height with the make believe holiday State Patty’s Day.
State Patty’s day also has become a great way for businesses all around the town to make a gigantic amount of money. The downtown stores began selling large amounts of green gear about a month in advance. The green shirts that can be seen during this weekend are in such large amounts that one could argue we now live in Ireland. They probably make more before this weekend than they do before a lot of football game weekends. The parking decks are probably rolling in money at the end of this weekend. They now have an excuse to get 15 dollars per car just for the huge amounts of college students that pile into state college during State Patty’s weekend. Finally, the bars that actually stay open have to make more money than normal weekends just because of the mass amount of outsiders that come into state college.
State college also has a ton of arrests and hospitalizations. My RA sent us an email with the heading “Don’t be another State Patty’s Day Statistic.” It stated that last year 157 arrests were made and 24 people were reported to have overdosed at the hospital the next day. Overdosed on what is a question to all of us. In this aspect, whether it is Penn State or outside students, the partying is taken too far. While State Patty’s day does bring a great name with lots of fun and profits to State college, it also has these pathetic statistics. If only we could balance and find a way to have fun without going too far during this memorable “Holiday.”
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