The Amethyst Initiative takes its name from ancient Greece, “where the purple gemstone amethyst was widely believed to ward off drunkenness if used in drinking vessels and jewelry.”
Chinese astrology agrees:
It is common to wear amethyst jewelry if you are about to drink a lot. Amethyst will protect you from drunkenness and will keep you sober.
I can’t believe I went to what was, at the time, the 8th biggest party school in the country and they never taught me this!
I went to the 3rd biggest party school in 1997, and by 2000 they were completely off the list because they were sick of being ranked. No, they didn’t teach us this either. But I once saw a 220-lb undercover public safety officer almost break off the arm of a 170-lb man, from behind and with no warning, in order to restrain him for the offense of… carrying a can of beer. That is how much their party school ranking stuck in their craw.
My primary criticism was that, at the end of the day, the university didn’t do a damn thing to replace the alcohol-based activities they were disrupting and eliminating, leaving all under-21 students with nothing to do after class except study, play video games, and jerk-off. I found the university antisocial and miserable after the crackdown; I nearly transfered to UF before the start of junior year. But I stuck it out, turned 21, told our university president to go fuck himself, and had a great senior year. $4 Yuengling pitchers, 50-cent Natural Light drafts, and a lot of dancing and fucking. Though I could have used the amethyst on a few occasions.
Did you go to FSU?
No, U. Delaware. The transfer to UF would have accommodated my parents moving from NYC to Northeastern FL (not near, but not incredibly far from Gainesville) and there were really no alternatives at my academic level. Unfortunately, it was unworkable. I was once an Ivy candidate (Princeton, Harvard) and UF was suggesting I take TWO semesters at community college and repeating sophomore year to catch up to their core requirements (which differed from Delaware significantly). I did not see myself taking such huge backwards steps at that point. Wise decision.
i’m glad you all didn’t go to the private art and design college i was enrolled in. we preferred schedule I and II controlled substances and your crystalline talisman would have likely been smoked, snorted, or mainlined.
