Can't Happen Here

While Harvard Student Agencies advertises a "Harvard degree in three nights" for its renowned bartending course, a similar program at the University of Pennsylvania has been put out of business.

Officials there say they are cancelling a Penn Student Agencies (PSA) bartending course because it makes alcohol available to minors and because they fear that students participating in the course may become intoxicated and cause damage to themselves or others.

Agency workers contend that the cancellation is unfair because they say that the bartending class is well supervised and has had no problems in the past.

The course, which has been taken by more than 400 students in the last year, offers an in-depth study of bartending, from drink-mixing to job-hunting.

The class is among PSA's most popular ventures, attracting an estimated 25 percent of all students at some point during their years at the University. The Daily Pennsylvanian