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Originally Posted by GA-Beta
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I agree. I think it's as sympathetic a media report as you will find. The writer doesn't seem to have lost sight of the tragedy at the center, even as it reports on events and policies.
One thing new thing struck me as I read it: the number of people mentioned who had already been arrested for, usually, alcohol related isssues. Is this getting to be the norm?
I ran it through my "how might this have gone differently with someone I knew back in the day" mental filter, I kept coming back to parents who either would have yanked their kids out of school or put them on a pretty short financial leash that would have made it all but impossible to sustain that level of partying.* (I don't mean that anyone could have prevented this guy's death and I'm not trying to blame anyone.) I was just struck by how many guys had brushes with the law and were out doing the exact same thing.
Are minor in possession and other alcohol related charges so commom that no one takes them seriously?