The Student Association announced last week that Asher Roth would be opening for Lupe Fiasco at the St. Michael’s spring concert on April 17. Roth is a rapper most famous for his hit “I Love College,” an ode to binge drinking and college partying that intersperses familiar party chants of “Chug! Chug!” and “Keg stand! Keg stand!”

I’m disappointed that the S.A. thought this was the best act to bring to campus. Roth’s persona confirms all the worst stereotypes about college students and their childish obsession with partying.

I don’t despise Roth’s hit song because of some moral objection to drinking, smoking marijuana, or partying. I despise the song because it’s incredibly stupid.

I’ve drank fairly consistently since I entered college (and even before that), and I’ve partaken in illegal drugs on occasion, and I’m not ashamed. But drinking ought to be an activity, not the activity. Too many students here think of drinking and smoking weed as their essence, and would regard a weekend spent sober as an awful, boring one. At this campus we’re all adults, and many of us can even drink legally. When will we stop acting like 15 year olds who just discovered the parents’ liquor stash?

Hopefully never, if Asher Roth is to be believed. Roth’s song encourages the idea that college is just about partying as hard as possible with little regard for the consequences.

As if the immaturity about partying wasn’t enough, Roth also adds an alarming amount of misogyny in “I Love College.” In the chorus, he brags about how he “had this one girl completely naked” as if it’s a conquest.

The song’s video is laced with misogynist imagery. It begins with Roth pushing a passed-out girl off a couch and stepping over her nonchalantly. Later in the video there’s a game of strip poker where all of the girls present are in their underwear—but the few men at the table, whose faces aren’t even shown, seem to have lost only their shirts.

As if to cover up for his obvious objectification of women, Roth tells listeners in the song, “don’t have sex if she’s too gone.” I guess he thinks it’s alright if she’s just a little “gone,” though.

The same day as the Asher Roth announcement, the S.A. sent out an e-mail advertising a contest for anti-binge drinking videos, asking students to “make a video spoofing drinking culture on this campus and promoting responsible behavior.” How disingenuous is it to promote responsible behavior and condemn binge drinking while bringing a rapper to campus who brags about being a beer pong champion?

This got me thinking, though: maybe “I Love College” is actually a satire that mocks the shallow, immature fascination with binge drinking and partying that’s so prevalent on this and so many other college campuses. Intentionally or not, the video for the song ought to win the S.A.’s anti-binging contest, because if copious amounts of alcohol made me act anything like Asher Roth in that video, I’d go stone sober immediately.