Vermont’s Middlebury College has decided to clamp down on the dangerous and pervasive issue of college kids purchasing energy drinks. Recently, the College Community Council, consisting of a board of members of the faculty and staff and twelve students, decided to ban the sales of energy drinks in campus. The campus will stop sale of energy drinks on March 7, though the basis of the move has raised some eyebrows.

It appears that the community council members were worried that the intake of energy drinks may result into ‘problematic behavior’, which in this case is less regarding micro-aggressions and more about consumption of too much booze and engaging in ‘high-risk sexual activity’.

Student publication, The Middlebury Campus, reported that Myles Kamisher-Koch, a student doing internship with the college's Dining Services, is the mastermind behind the decision. During a meeting of administrators, students and faculty, Kamisher-Koch argued that beverages such as Red Bull and 5-Hour energy encourage a ‘culture of stress’, promoting bad academic habits.

NBC News reported that the college has also associated these drinks with increasing probability that students will drink and drive and consume other ‘intoxicating’ substances.

The college also claimed that it has prohibited the sale of energy drinks due to health reasons. Executive director of dining hall services, Dan Detora, said that the college sees the decision as a ban similar to the ban on cigarettes. Though, it isn’t exactly same, because cigarettes are dangerous for people, who aren’t even consuming them.

However, there is a possibility that administrators have been confusing causation with correlation. While, many studies have associated energy drinks to ‘risky behavior’, there’s little proof that such drinks lead people to indulge in high-risk behavior.