UNCW says no to downtown party shuttle

I believe UNCW should deny the shuttle service. The students who plan to party need to come together and hire designated drivers or pay for a cab just like the non-students. That could be extra $$$$ for the DDs, an innovative side business for a student who needs the extra cash. Of course I went to 4 yrs of college, paid by me & grants, graduated with honors, work 2 jobs & partied hard when I had the time. I either walked back home or had a DD. Makes since to me. It's time to be responsible adults and not depend on UNCW to get you home during non-school activities.

APPROVE THE BUS! The young adults are going to drink whether you approve or not. The bus keeps them and everyone else on the roads SAFE! Check out ECU's bus program. They pick up and drop off at certain times throughout the campus apartment complexes and campus. Wrong move, not to approve!

When I first read that UNCW was considering the shuttle, I thought, "What a great idea!" and then when I saw that it was rejected, I thought, "What a horrible idea!" After a little deeper thought I realized that it was the right decision and this is why. All of you upper-classmen keep using the same line: "We are going to drink, it is a fact, the university shouldn't ignore it" and I agree. I drank more than most during my 4 years at UNCW, but my problem is that the money you save on the cab ride (whether it's mommy and daddy's or whether you work real hard at Hooter's or at the Cafeteria at Wagner) is not going to make or break you. Plus, who takes a cab downtown by themselves...NO ONE!!!! So when you cram 4 or 5 kids in a cab the ride downtown can't be more than $5 a piece. Unless you go downtown 5 nights a week it can't be putting you in the poor house can it? These comments are coming from the same people that are drinking $8 martini's or $6 shots of Jager. Why not leave one of those drinks behind the bar and take a cab? I find it hard to believe that the people who are complaining about the cost of a cab ride are going to save this money and use it for anything constructive. They are going to buy more beer with it or have one more drink at the bar. Unless things have changed in since 2006 when I finished Graduate School not that many kids (over 21) live on campus anyway. What about them? Should UNCW pay for a shuttle to take them back to Monkey Junctions or Yester Oaks (shout out to my old hood)? I would have loved to have had this shuttle service, but I probably wouldn't be able to say I was a UNCW ALUMNUS now.

I'm still sore over having to fund the Wilmington housing authority free crack house program for people that cannot manage their own lives. I'd rather not fund rich kids on their drinking binges downtown as well. Now if this was a bus service for distant poor students that need the rides to learn, count me in. But this clearly isn't the case here. Spoiled brats can find their own way home and to the bars as well. I certainly don't want them drinking and driving. And they cost people money in the destroyed lives from wrecks anyway. To pay this would be a form of public extortion. I say we get tougher and start having road blocks just off campus on weekends searching for drinking drivers and take them off the road right there. That would generate a lot of revenue from DWI's that the state needs combat the problem.

OK U COLLEGE STUDENTS ..ALL IM HEARING IS U R GONNA DRIVE DRUNK IF U R NOT GIVEN A FREE BUS RIDE HOME..AND THEY SHOULD FEEL BAD CAUSE THEY WONT GIVE IT TO U .. HA .. I THOUGHT GOING TO COLLEGE WAS TO MAKE U SMARTER ..HA.. INSTEAD URE GONNA DRIVE DRUNK AND RISK URE LIFE AND THE LIVES OF OTHERS ...SADLEY I WASNT ABLE TO GO TO COLLEGE ..BUT IVE GOT OLD FASHIONED HORSE SENCE ...I KNOW HOW TO GET A CAB ..I KNOW HOW TO SET UP A PRE ARRANGED RIDE FROM A NON DRINKING FRIEND OR RELATIVE ..THERE IS A HOTEL DOWNTOWN..AND THERE IS ALWAYS URE OWN 2 FEET ... SHAMEFUL

This highly pisses me off...had you rather pay for a bus or pay for someone to be in prison for the rest of their life for killing your loved one?

i can't believe this! Since I've been here this has one great thing proposed and i cannot believe that it is rejected!!!!! i'm from abroad, i cannot believe you're making it so hard for people to drink. you american lawmakers are pathetic!

Whether you accept it or reject it, UNCW students are going to drink. Most of the underage ones drink at parties on or off campus (bars are very strict on id's). Therefore the vast majority of students drinking downtown are atleast 21. Many of us have jobs and do not count on our parents for taxi money. It's just very hard to work alot of hours bc UNCW is so tough. We're gonna be downtown and we're gonna be drinking. It's quite a shame that people like having drunk drivers on the road opposed to a simple alternative...the proposed bus service!

Part of the learning experience is to be responsible adults. Now they want the college to run a bus service for them to participate in activities that work against what the college is there for in the first place? Go figure... I'm glad that UNCW has the balls to stand up to the future spoiled leaders of America. You cannot smoke in the buildings, so UNCW should not have to cater to another bad habit that does defiantly have negative health benefits. What would the students want next? Hooka parlors and pot rooms? These same students just didn't wanna have to ask momma and daddy for taxi money when they are too plastered to drive!

however, considering that most of the student body of UNCW is underage for alcohol consumption, it isn't a really great idea for the school to get involved in this. It could be considered contributing to underage drinking. Unless they have an police officer at the bus stop to hand out citations and hold the offenders for their parents to drive to Wilmington to pick them up (if they're under 18y). Facilitating an illegal activity is only going to open up UNCW to all sorts of lovely lawsuits even if it helps to keep the kids safe.