As Unofficial (a binge drinking event) starts at UIUC, County
Market on campus has made large, front-store displays of on-sale liquor, in
minis and full bottles. The store apparently wants in on the action of selling
booze to thousands of nearby UIUC students—and many others who come to town for
this weekend drinking event.
While County Market makes a few bucks off these sales, the store increases the odds that one or more women will be sexually assaulted at a
party in a nearby apartment or res hall, and that students will need treatment
in the emergency room for alcohol poisoning. That’s if Unofficial is mild. On
bad Unofficials, students fall off balconies several floors above concrete. One
year, a visiting student died in the middle of campustown after she fell off a
motorcycle.
Whatever County Market makes off this irresponsible marketing
(County Market won’t pay for the ER bills; they won’t answer to any young woman who might
be assaulted because of their product; and the campus they serve is rated as
the #1 party school in the U.S., due in part to this type of
make-a-buck-off-drunk-kids attitude), let’s subtract our purchases this weekend from their
liquor sales.
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