IT depends on how you frame the problem. I am missing the core of the argument as well as the suggestions for new cures.
Is the problem that alcohol is inherently bad?
Is the problem that drinking to feel the effects of alcohol bad? And I don't know what the point of drinking alcohol is if you are not going to feel something from it.
Is the problem that people under 21 drink?
Are responses proportional?
If someone dies on campus should a campus go dry?
If we are really serious about stopping underage drinkers shouldn't we make it a felony? We make druge use a felony (of course that doesn't work).
I think we have our programs in place, and I think for the most part they work or a lot more people would be dying. Education and experience is the key.
We already mentioned that we can easily solve the under-age drinking issue in Greek Life by either limiting members to those over 21 or kicking out anyone that drinks under 21, zero tolerance.
If we are not going to do the only two things that we can actually directly control like that, then we continue as we are doing.
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Originally posted by DeltAlum
We love you, too, James, but the methodology could work in the other direction as well. It's possible (as in the case of men committing 70+ percent of the crime) that the 31% of the agegroup who are in college might account for 70% of the alcohol deaths and injuries.
But, let's assume you are correct and that the 1400 number is high. At what number does it become OK? 1000? 700? 250?
Where does it start to the a problem instead of a statistic.
I think it's a problem now.
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