Yeah. It's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo. :D

Well obviously Rose-Hullman hasn't been subjected to the Indiana State Excise Police unlike all of the public institutions in Indiana.

BEER Machine
 

At the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada the Chi Gamma chapter of Zeta Psi also has a beer machine. We have had it there for years and never really thought anything of it as far as risk managment. In fact the machine has a long history :) Back when university was cheap the brothers enrolled the beer machine in school and actually showed up to write its exams. They had it just a few credits short of a degree before the university administration caught on. Also the beer machine had its own ID cards, its own political memberships and all. Not so easy to get away with these things now, but just good fun in the past. The people there are responsible enough to use the machine properly, and it also helps that the legal drinking age in Alberta is 18. Not just anybody walks around the house anyway, plus it is a good source of revenue when brothers do not feel like walking to a beer store.

Re: BEER Machine
 

Okay, one question.

Who paid for the beer machine's classes?

classes
 

In the 1960's-70's tuition at the University of Calgary was only a few hundred dollars being a newly formed school and trying to attract many people. The city was in the midst of an economic boom, there was lots of money being made off of oil, and jobs were plenty. The brothers paid for the classes just because they could, it was a big joke. I'm not sure off hand on the exacts for tuiton levels, but it was something like 1960's $2-300, 70's $400-500, 1980's $600-800, 1990's $1200 by 2004 $4300. It just really says something about rising tuition levels vs. rate of inflation.

What was the Beer Machine's name?
Surely it had a name was and was not just enrolled as "Beer Machine."
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Maybe it was making enough money from beer sales to pay for its tuition and books - I guess room and board were free.

Interesting that the drinking age in Alberta is 18 - I'll bet that they don't have all the "horror stories" that the 21-and-up lobby used to get the drinking age raised nationwide in the US.

It used to be 21 on Ontario. It was lowered to 18, it was eventually raised to 19. although I'm sure some people think it's a problem, I've never heard that it's been a major issue for universities where the majority of their students were of legal drinking age.

There was a lot of horror stories for GLOs when the drinking age changed here though... some of the chapter's scrapbooks record news-articles and such. The thing is that it was 18 and was raised to 21 and then back down again... Fraternities became very vunerable to legal action because of their beer machines, and a good number were shutdown through legal action as a result.

on the whole beer vendng machine, i know that there have been a few on my campus and the guys have gotten into a lot of trouble for having them