Assuming the steady drizzles and drops of the last 24 hours end in time, WashU's semi-annual drunken letdown will take place tonight. That's right, it's already time for Spring WILD, and freshmen will find out that the huge party they've been hearing about all year is really just a soggy, smelly, excuse for everyone to get drunk and pass out in the quad during a subpar concert. WashU seems to be trying to remove the passing out part, though, as word came out last week in Student Life that "the administration" will be banning kegs at all future WILDs.

Naturally, WashU's alcoholics are up in arms that their inalienable right to go to the hospital with alcohol poisoning 2 times per year is being taken away from them, and they are trotting out their usual time-honored line of reasoning for why this is a horrible idea: College students are going to drink to excess, and if they can't do it in a "safe environment" like WILD they will do so in their apartments beforehand, where the only people who will be able to administer first aid to them when they begin to choke on their own vomit will also be trashed,

Ah, so it's not a student's fault if they down a bottle of tequila and have to get their stomach pumped, it's the school's fault. How convenient to have such a ready-made scapegoat for your own stupidity. It never ceases to amaze me how collectively dumb the student body is when it comes to WashU's alcohol policy. They seem to believe that the school is somehow required to let them do whatever they want, even if it results in likely harm to themselves or others. Perhaps having their rich parents buy them a car as soon as they turned 16 and paying off their credit card bills every month gave them this amazing sense of entitlement.

And it's not like they even took any facts into consideration before firing back at the administrations "unfair alcohol policy". For tonight's WILD, when kegs are still allowed, only 9 have even been registered. And every student of age is allowed to carry in a 12-pack of beer with them if they choose. 12 beers. If that isn't enough to get you buzzed, then you have a major problem and probably shouldn't be drinking at all. But that hasn't stopped the deluge of mail to Student Life decrying this act as the end of WILD as we know it. And even if it does turn out that way, it's no great loss. The whole event is an overrated waste of funding anyway.