Beer Consumption Could Flood UO
No wonder the winters in Ore
gon are wet.
Official figures for the weekly
beer consumption at the Side are
120 to 150 cases a week ordinarily,
with the amount running as high
as 180 cases at times, such as the
close of an examination week or
the advent of a holiday.
Beer consumption figures were
unavailable at Taylor’s where ev
erything is strictly hush-hush, but
a conservative estimate would be
70 to 80 cases a week. Not taking
into account the vast amounts
consumed at the Pioneer club or
Robinson’s, this adds up to a grand
total of 5280 bottles of beer a
week, if 150 cases a week at the
Side are taken as an average. This
is slightly less than one bottle per
week per student.
Did You Know?
A bit of quick mental prestidigi
tation gives a round figure of 500
gallons of beer for which students
act as middle man each week, or
enough to tub every sophorome in
school. Proceeding along these
lines, it may be easily determined
that in the course of a school year
there are approximately 18,000
gallons of suds blotted up.
This amount is enough to stag
ger the imagination. It is enough
beer to fill a swimming pool 25 by
40 feet to a depth of three feet.
Could a lovelier fate be dreamed
of than to drown in a pool of such
a description?
The average automobile radia
tor hods about four gallons of wa
ter. According to this, the cam
pus yearly beer consumption would
fill about 4500 radiators, and since
beer has a very low freezing point
it would provide ample insurance
against a cracked block during the
cold winter months. The result
would more likely be a crocked
block. However, there is no real
need for filling radiators with beer,
as there are numerous commercial
preparations on the market for
just that purpose which contain
alcohol unfit to drink.
Yearly Consumption
Since the beer sold in the Side
and Taylor’s comes in 12-ounce
bottles, it may readily be deduced
that 190,080 bottles are required
each year.-The bottles are approxi
mately two and one-half inches in
diameter. Placed side by side
these would stretch out 42,240 feet
or for exactly eight miles. This
amount would be almost enough
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Discounting the weight of the
bottles, a year’s beers for the Uni
versity weigh 144,000 pounds or
72 tons. This would necessitate
three and one-half trucks capable
of carrying 20 tons each, which is
as large as trucks get.
Nothing on Us
The soap companies have noth
ing on us. They feel that filling a
truck with suds is a good publicity
stunt, but here we’ve already filled
three in the course of our calcula
tions.
Lest we lose sight of ourselves
in our figures and begin to think
that the University has nothing to
offer students except beer, let’s
stop for a little sober considera
tion of the facts. Eighteen thou
sand gallons of beer amount to
only three gallons of beer each
year for each student, which can
hardly be considered an excessive
amount. On the contrary, what we
need is more of the stuff. . . .
DuShane Goes
East to Meeting
Donald M. DuShane, director of
student affairs, leaves Sunday for
Highland Park, Illinois, where he
will attend the Thirty-First Anni
versary Conference of the National
Association of Deans and Advisers
ofi&en, April 13-16.
DuShane is chairman of the com
mittee to restate aims of the asso
ciation, and will report on the
group’s actions at the Saturday
morning session.
“The committee is considering
changing the name of the organi
zation, which really includes deans
of students and deans of men,” Du
Shane said.
“We are also studying the possi
bility of admitting junior college
deans, and special memberships for
personal executives in business and
industry.”
The Oregon director has served
on the executive committee of the
association for three years.
DuShane will return to his Em
erald hall office Tuesday, April 19.
Footnotes
(Continued from page six)
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stove that may still lie some
where in the burned out ruins of
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