Cheap Shot
After Samantha Spady, 19, a student at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, drank herself to death, the university banned beer sales at its football stadium. But university police say that drunken behavior at games is worse since the ban, not better, because students know they can’t buy beer there and arrive already drunk. Meanwhile, a company sponsoring a Jell-O wrestling tournament in Ft. Collins has canceled plans to donate $100 to a foundation Spady’s parents created in her memory. To attract women, promoter Brian Collins promised to provide free alcoholic “Jell-O shots” to the first 100 women who attended. Collins said there was “no harm intended” in tying the event to the Spady foundation. (RC/AP, Denver Rocky Mountain News) ...Harm, maybe not. Profiteering, yes.Author’s Note: For the previous story on Spady, see “Role Model” earlier in this volume, and/or in my blog at https://thisistrue.com/rolemodel/.
Original Publication Date: 21 November 2004
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 11.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 11.
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