Up Close | Two years later, drinking still a ‘ticking bomb’
It was half-past eleven, but the night was hardly still. Amerigo Fabbri stepped outside on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 27 — almost a year ago — to see roughly four hundred students, dressed in costume and wielding red plastic cups, crowded in the lower and main courtyards of Pierson College. Music blasted from speakers mounted on windows.
Alarmed by what seemed to be an impromptu mob, Fabbri, the Dean of Pierson College, acted quickly and with caution; he called the police.
The mob, though, turned out to be Pierson’s annual “Inferno,” a Halloween celebration that dates...
Great article capturing the current pulse of YU's disparate alcohols mores on multiple levels in an arguably fairly accurate, if not totally comprehensive, way.
Certainly, this was no small feat within an institution where young lads (& lasses in more recent years)have found the time to 'discover' alcohol's effect in one form/degree or another in ways that have been documented more than two centuries back.
There is undoubtedly a kernel of truth in framing this as an issue of education (i.e. involving the goal of a more rudimentarily, at least, enlightened 18-22+ year old student body).
In light of this fact, referenced in previous YDN articles, Dean M. Gentry and any associated vetting commitee have seemingly exercised great prudence in not settling on a less than appropriate candidate for this potentially impactful position.
This , in my humble estimation, would involve equal doses of in-the-trenches, 'keeping it real' mentality with that of academic gravitas (i.e. intellectual compatibility w/YU's decision makers).
JMcH.