My turn: Absence of Red Bull leaves students blue
Tristan Meiman
Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Perspective
When any of us wake up for our early classes, the first thing we need is that one amazing drug that makes us happy…
No, it's not cocaine; it's caffeine.
Some of us go to Starbucks, some of us grab sodas, and if you're like me, you a grab a Red Bull.
I should first address the people who tell me that energy drinks are bad for me, and those who know they contain chemicals that could kill me sometime down the road in some horrific way:
I thank you for your concern for the well being of my body, but I've picked my poison.
I drink these delicious concoctions because they taste great and they give me the boost I need in a hurry.
And let's face it - I'm not doing this for my health.
As much as I love the taste of Red Bull, it's quite the hassle to have to hike to the local gas station to pick up a can or two given what my day has in store for me.
Before I learned my lesson, I used to trek from campus convenience store to campus convenience store. At each I found everything: equal parts Rockstar, Monster and disappointment.
Needless to say, there's not one can of Red Bull.
Puzzled and confused, I sought out some answers.
I began to ask friends and staff why our campus has a myriad of sodas and energy drinks but no Red Bull.
To my horror, I found it's mainly a contract predicament-a static, resistant-to-change contract predicament.
Eastern's campus has a contract with Coca-Cola, which means we sell everything they produce and then some.
Red Bull is manufactured by its Austrian parent company (i.e. NOT Coca-Cola).
The one sight of hope is when, on random occasions, the Red Bull-mobile pulls up and hands out free Red Bull to passing students on campus.
A hope that runs through my head is that the people that run this place will notice,
"Hey people actually like this crap. Perhaps we should invest in it!"
I'm sure there are plenty of other products that many of you love and would like to see on this campus (cough, Ale8, cough), but sadly it seems that many of the things we would like to see on campus (e.g. better food, more parking, better lighting around campus at night, etc.) will not come anytime soon.
So as I sit at my desk, sipping my off-campus Red Bull and writing this column for all you happy people, I'm reminded of a poem I once read off a Web-comic by Ryan Sohmer called "Least I Could Do."
"Whether off to work, or off to class there's no doubt about it, mornings suck ass.
Never enough sleep, with always too much to do, I greet each dawn with a giant &*!@ YOU.
As bad as it is, a day that's too full. The morning's not my beginning. It's when I get my Red Bull."
No, it's not cocaine; it's caffeine.
Some of us go to Starbucks, some of us grab sodas, and if you're like me, you a grab a Red Bull.
I should first address the people who tell me that energy drinks are bad for me, and those who know they contain chemicals that could kill me sometime down the road in some horrific way:
I thank you for your concern for the well being of my body, but I've picked my poison.
I drink these delicious concoctions because they taste great and they give me the boost I need in a hurry.
And let's face it - I'm not doing this for my health.
As much as I love the taste of Red Bull, it's quite the hassle to have to hike to the local gas station to pick up a can or two given what my day has in store for me.
Before I learned my lesson, I used to trek from campus convenience store to campus convenience store. At each I found everything: equal parts Rockstar, Monster and disappointment.
Needless to say, there's not one can of Red Bull.
Puzzled and confused, I sought out some answers.
I began to ask friends and staff why our campus has a myriad of sodas and energy drinks but no Red Bull.
To my horror, I found it's mainly a contract predicament-a static, resistant-to-change contract predicament.
Eastern's campus has a contract with Coca-Cola, which means we sell everything they produce and then some.
Red Bull is manufactured by its Austrian parent company (i.e. NOT Coca-Cola).
The one sight of hope is when, on random occasions, the Red Bull-mobile pulls up and hands out free Red Bull to passing students on campus.
A hope that runs through my head is that the people that run this place will notice,
"Hey people actually like this crap. Perhaps we should invest in it!"
I'm sure there are plenty of other products that many of you love and would like to see on this campus (cough, Ale8, cough), but sadly it seems that many of the things we would like to see on campus (e.g. better food, more parking, better lighting around campus at night, etc.) will not come anytime soon.
So as I sit at my desk, sipping my off-campus Red Bull and writing this column for all you happy people, I'm reminded of a poem I once read off a Web-comic by Ryan Sohmer called "Least I Could Do."
"Whether off to work, or off to class there's no doubt about it, mornings suck ass.
Never enough sleep, with always too much to do, I greet each dawn with a giant &*!@ YOU.
As bad as it is, a day that's too full. The morning's not my beginning. It's when I get my Red Bull."
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phineas r. quizmo
posted 2/04/10 @ 8:01 PM EST
ramalama-jimjam. echo that stewie. nothing like knockin' down a drum of cold RB to set your rails. trouble be that even if not one bucket of coke-fizz EG is ever peddled on campus, contracts are, and that's the rub-a-dud bro. (Continued…)
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