COLLEGE BANS RED BULL

Middlebury College in Vermont has banned campus sales of popular energy drinks such as Red Bull and 5-Hour Energy. College officials blame the drinks for contributing to “problematic behavior,” such as alcohol abuse and high-risk sexual activity, and say they don’t contribute to the dining service’s mission to “nourish” its students. Red Bull lists its caffeine content as 80 milligrams in its 8.4-ounce cans – about the same amount as an 8-ounce cup of coffee. A Regular Strength 5-hour Energy shot contains about the same caffeine content as a 12-ounce cup. Both contain vitamins and other additives. Khine Su, 21, a Middlebury student from Myanmar, said, “I have friends who drink six shots a day. For me, one shot works, but I can’t sleep afterwards and go straight to class in the morning.” Middlebury students aren’t banned from consuming the drinks – they just have to buy them elsewhere.
* I’d love me a Starbucks franchise next to Middlebury College right about now.
* This is a good idea, because before energy drinks came along, college kids never went in for alcohol abuse and high-risk sexual activity.
* “Problematic behavior”? Sounds like a Vermont term for “having fun.”
* The students could try, you know, sleeping. That always worked for me.
* Both drinks contain vitamins and other additives but nobody cares about that: It’s all about the caffeine.
* How pathetic. Back when I was in school we just pulled all-nighters because we wanted to learn so much.
* That and because we had screwed off all semester and had to cram for finals.
* We wanted to talk to the students who drink 6 shots a day but they were just making gibberish sounds.