The Pioneer asked 304 students to tell us the most interesting place they’ve consumed alcohol during their time at Whitman. Here are some responses.
“Flag football game”
“andre out of the bottle on ank during camp whitman! wahoo!”
“My front porch?”
“in the elevator at north.”
“During Orgo recitation.”
“Curb in front of Bridges’ house”
“in a shopping cart riding home from safeway”
“Prentiss Dining Hall”
“in a classroom, during my macroeconomics final exam”
“While playing croquet behind Lyman”
“Health center”
“teriyaki restaurant (brought my own)”
“In my car (not while driving)”
“no where super interesting.”
“Art building!”
“Sorry, not telling that much”
“On the Harper Joy Theater Alexander Stage’s circular rotating platform (used for ‘She Loves Me’)”
“at Mr. Whitman in Cordiner”
“wheat fields”
“Walking on campus.”
“A tree house”
“Pre-Beer mile concert surrounded by mostly nude people.”
“onstage at a concert”
“by the cat lady’s house”
“Technically not on campus, but some of the Semester in the West parties got pretty epic. Drinking in a trailer FTW.”
“In the Amphitheater”
“At my professor’s 4th of july party :)”
“Roofs of course”
“On a lawn?”
“math lab in olin”
“Under the Yellow Sculpture”
“Prefunk Plenary”
“At the gym”
“on the train tracks”
“On top of the dome at WWCC.”
“VODKA SHOTS IN THE QUIET ROOM. During finals week. It was great.”
“Lakum Duckum”
“Is this article going to glorify the consumption of alcohol? I am not okay with that.”
Of those surveyed, 122 had consumed alcohol while studying/writing a paper, 54 had gone to class while under the influence of alcohol, 75 had consumed alcohol with a professor, 98 had consumed alcohol in a campus building (not their dorm).