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GA-Beta · #1 11-19-2006, 11:16 PM

http://www.atlantamagazine.com/article.php?id=296

Pretty good summary by Atlanta Magazine this month.

UGAalum94 · #2 11-20-2006, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by GA-Beta

http://www.atlantamagazine.com/article.php?id=296

Pretty good summary by Atlanta Magazine this month.

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?

macallan25 · #3 11-20-2006, 12:25 PM

Its a major college campus/town.....there are going to be significant numbers of MIPs/ MICs/ DUIs etc.

UGAalum94 · #4 11-20-2006, 12:51 PM

Yep, Athens had been a major college town for a pretty long time now, but while I can remember a handful of DUIs, which were taken pretty seriously, among people that I knew, I don't remember there being a ton of other alcohol related arrests. Maybe the folks I knew just didn't get caught.

I was wondering if the casual attitude was a reflection of unintended consequences in changing alcohol policies at UGA and in Athens. Rather than making people be more serious and more careful because they didn't want to get arrested, it's made them more likely to think being arrested is no big deal.

macallan25 · #5 11-20-2006, 01:46 PM

I think casual attitudes have alot to do with it.....as does pressure to conform to what other schools are doing. Ole Miss just got new alcohol policies, OU got new ones a couple of years ago, UGA, and they are starting to tighten up down here as well. I would expect to see changes at many places in the near future.