Students banned from strawpedoing have accused their union leaders of
running a “draconian nanny state”.
Anyone caught strawpedoing, downing high-sugar alcopops while using a
straw to avoid creating a vacuum, in the Edinburgh University Students’
Association (EUSA) club on Potterrow now face being thrown out by staff.
But angry undergraduates have condemned the move.
An online petition calling on EUSA to “Un-ban the Strawpedo” has been launched,
and on Saturday night unrest broke out in the queue to get into The Big
Cheese, a popular club night run by EUSA, as a group of students
allegedly tried to storm the club to strawpedo their drinks in protest
at the ban.
Tasha Boardman, EUSA’s vice-president services, said: “We have a responsibility to operate in a socially responsible manner in accordance with licensing law. We had been seeing an increase in strawpedoing which is not deemed as responsible consumption under licensing legislation, which we have a duty to uphold.
“We removed the straws so we could communicate to customers when requesting a straw that strawpedoing is not a practice we allow and if caught they may be removed.” Dr Sarah Jarvis, medical adviser to alcohol education charity Drinkaware, says that strawpedoing could put students at risk of “drinking too much, too quickly”.
Tasha Boardman, EUSA’s vice-president services, said: “We have a responsibility to operate in a socially responsible manner in accordance with licensing law. We had been seeing an increase in strawpedoing which is not deemed as responsible consumption under licensing legislation, which we have a duty to uphold.
“We removed the straws so we could communicate to customers when requesting a straw that strawpedoing is not a practice we allow and if caught they may be removed.” Dr Sarah Jarvis, medical adviser to alcohol education charity Drinkaware, says that strawpedoing could put students at risk of “drinking too much, too quickly”.
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