Smoking ban at American University will now cover outdoors, too

[Chan790]

67. AU once again demonstrating why the rest of DC collegians think of them as Facepalm U.

It's the sort of place where if 1 person finds 1 thing enjoyable, 5 people have to try to ban it. Political correctness, nosiness, NIMBYism and liberal-authoritarianism run amuck.

I'm going to go hang in the quad with a Camel and my friend Jim Beam while talking on my cell phone about having sex in the dorms. (That's 4 things AU has banned or attempted to ban from campus in the past 15 years: tobacco, alcohol, noise-polluting electronic devices and sex. Only the last one was met with any real sense of absurdity.)