Dozens Arrested at Notre Dame, Vanderbilt
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underreporting of more serious crimes
Alcohol abuse and underage drinking may seem to be a focus at schools as Vanderbilt, but speaking from experience, more serious crimes such as hate crimes, assaults, and rape may be under-reported and even covered up by university officials, not to scar the reputation of these schools, which should be the greater tragedy.
Bob of MD
What Bob said is completely true, nicely put.
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The arrests on college campuses is getting ridiculous. How do 51 kids get arrested for disorderly conduct? That is enough people for a riot. The system is bad and college students are paying for it. $1,500 per student, college students can't afford that. And 37 at Notre Dame, again I think it has to be a joke. These are two of the best universities in the nation and things get taken to this? Underage kids drink, it happens at every college and to think that arresting some is going to stop it is sad. Things need to be looked at for what they are and dealt with accordingly.
Under Age Drinking
I'm 50 and have one in college and I'm looking to send my 2nd. Here's my take on underage drinking, our society has made it "so taboo" that all kids are literally dying to do it. When I was 18 we could drink. And we did. But, we didn't binge drink, because it wasn't a big deal. We went to bars, we went to parties and we hung out. We knew that tomorrow we could drink again so there wasn't that pressure to "hurry up" or "this might be the last time". I'm all for lowering the drinking age, I think it will, in the long run be safer for our kids. All kids are going to party and the more taboo you make it, the more they're going to do it.
Unfortunately, the drinking age will never be lowered, not because it makes sense, but because it's a HUGE revenue generator for our cities. MIP's generate millions of dollars for our cities and police departments. They hand the tickets out like confetti paper and they bring in $100 to $500 a pop. Try taking those dollars away from your city government.
They'll never learn.
targeting teens
Alcohol distributors blatently target teens for consumption of their beverages. Some of the newer products on the market can easily be mistaken for energy drinks or sodas. It appears that the alcohol companies are conditioning kids to be alcohol consumers at younger and younger ages. There is currently a huge controversy (and lawsuit) over drinks like "Sparks" which combine caffeine and alcohol.
"Mix alcohol and stimulants with a young person’s sense of invincibility and you have a recipe for disaster," said George A. Hacker, director of CSPI’s alcohol policies project. "Sparks is a drink designed to mask feelings of drunkenness and to encourage people to keep drinking past the point at which they otherwise would have stopped. The end result is more drunk driving, more injuries, and more sexual assaults."
Drinkers of caffeinated alcoholic drinks are more likely to binge drink, ride with an intoxicated driver, become injured, or be taken advantage of sexually than drinkers of non-caffeinated alcoholic drinks, according to a 2007 study conducted at Wake Forest University.
See The Center for Science in the Public Interest website for more info on this.
alcobol consumption
Look at all the advertising on televisionb during, before and after sporting events. It is directed towards those in their early 20's etc. Go inside a gas station and check out the beer ready for you to drive off with, including that already on ice. In Florida, the drug stores and grocery srodtores have more choices of wine and beer than food products.
And the point is?
Irresponisble consumption of alcohol (or any behavorial altering substances) is as detrimental to minors as it is for adults.
We already knew that.
