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No Beers For Steers: USF Ropes In Daytime Drinking

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By ADAM EMERSON

The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 4, 2008

TAMPA - It took less than a week.

Reports that students were drinking between classes and workers were hoisting beers on their lunch breaks prompted the University of South Florida to limit when the new campus bar and grill can serve alcohol.

Beef 'O' Brady's opened to fanfare two weeks ago in the new Marshall Center student union at USF. Supervisors, however, found their employees drinking before coming back to work and noticed students sipping midday beers after school started last week.

No one was going back to class or work drunk, USF spokesman Michael Hoad said, but the university's policy prohibits any drinking before those activities.

"The visibility of this just made it obvious that reality and the policy were in conflict," Hoad said.

Hoad said the only sensible move was to prohibit daytime drinking at the restaurant, lest a student visit a science lab under the influence of alcohol.

Beer and wine will be served now only after 6 p.m. weekdays and anytime the eatery is open on weekends.

Reporter Adam Emerson can be reached at (813) 259-8285 or

aemerson@tampatrib.com.

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