> I'm surprised they allow alcohol at student organization events, period
According to the link above, "student organizations" also includes fraternities/sororities and athletic teams. Never heard of fraternities/sororities not being allowed to have alcohol at their parties before, outside of schools with a religious lean (e.g., BYU) or edge cases. I didn't go to college that long ago either, been barely 6 years since I graduated.
The only relevant thing I remember we had was a "dry week", iirc during the first week of any given semester. During "dry week", fraternities/sororities weren't allowed to have alcohol at their events, period. Which made sense, because it was also the rush week, and the school didn't want fraternities/sororities to entice students with alcohol during their recruitment week.
God, now I'm thinking about how much better our fundraisers would have been if we could have sold drink tickets, for the organizations I was involved in. And how much more I'd have cared about fundraising if we could have diverted some of the proceeds to buy ourselves alcohol "for official functions", LOL.
The original cover of The Hobbit has runes running along the outside; the runes read "The Hobbit or There and Back Again, being the record of a journey by Bilbo Baggins of Hobbiton compiled from his memoirs by JRR Tolkein and published by G?rge Allen and Unwin Ltd"[0].
I can read that because of my mum's books on doing fortune telling with Viking rune stones, which she kept near her statue of a Hindu god and some magic crystals.
At this point, calling one of the sacraments by a silly name is the least of my problems if it turns out to all be real.
(Knowing what an inscription means is actually an important real-world method of being able to read it!)
The "Z" used by Tolkien there appears to be his own invention. The whole inscription is something of a mess; a few things are put into runes by sound, but mostly a fairly strict letter-to-letter transcription is used. This is especially bad in "published", which prints an "S" followed by an "H", reflecting nothing about the actual word. (The sound in question would, in a real Anglo-Saxon text, be represented sc, not sh; Tolkien in his other documents used a mirror-reversed S rune instead.)
Only when they have gathered for the ritual at the annointed hour, when the cleric speaks the incantation does the transubstantiation occur, that they may feast upon the flesh and blood of their god.
According to the link above, "student organizations" also includes fraternities/sororities and athletic teams. Never heard of fraternities/sororities not being allowed to have alcohol at their parties before, outside of schools with a religious lean (e.g., BYU) or edge cases. I didn't go to college that long ago either, been barely 6 years since I graduated.
The only relevant thing I remember we had was a "dry week", iirc during the first week of any given semester. During "dry week", fraternities/sororities weren't allowed to have alcohol at their events, period. Which made sense, because it was also the rush week, and the school didn't want fraternities/sororities to entice students with alcohol during their recruitment week.