Bakersfield College does not officially sell alcohol at its home football games, but the Helmet Club does.
At every game in the BC football season, the Helmet Club, a BC alumni organization, obtains a permit to sell beer outside the BC stadium to tailgaters.
They shut down all beer sales a half an hour before the game starts, said Pat Coyle, the director of food services at BC.
While this is not BC officially supporting drunkenness, BC still allows beer to be sold where minors are present.
Coyle said that food services merely supervises beer sales. According to Coyle, he makes sure the alcohol is sold during the right times and in the right places.
BC, a community college that caters to a wide variety of ages, is not “officially” selling alcohol, but it allows an outside group to come in and sell it instead.
No alcohol should be sold at any school event.
BC is still a school, and as such should not sell alcohol at its official functions.
It doesn’t matter if it is sold in the parking lot by an outside group or that food services shuts down all distribution before the game, it is still beer at a school function.
BC authorizes the vending of beer, so any way you look at it, the college condones alcohol.
Besides, a half an hour is certainly not enough time for people to get sober so they can watch a football game.
Why is selling beer even necessary at a BC game in the first place?
The main priority of the people there should be to cheer on our Renegades, not make sure they’re at the stadium an hour before the game so they can get smashed.
BC has a four-page policy on beer distribution, but selling beer can create more problems for campus security.
It is difficult to card everyone, let alone control those who are over 21 who get hammered right before the game.
This causes an enormous liablity for BC if a drunken football fan drives home and causes an accident.
One major injury or death after a game could create a campus nightmare.
BC should not be involved in vending alcohol in any way. Beer sales must stop at college functions.
This will cause one less headache for BC before and after the games.