Advice to incoming freshmen on campus safety...

[LionTamer]

1. Stick with beer. You quickly learn your tolerance, and are less likely to far over-shoot your limit.

My Dad gave me this advice when i was going off to college, and it served me well, and this was before date rape drugs. You have know idea how much alcohol is in punches, mixed drinks, or jello shots. If I could tell you how often in college I had to carry home friends after I had beer and they had "hairy gorilla" punch or killer strawberry daquiris ("okay, Jane, just put your arm around my shoulder. Come on, we can do this. I am NOT leaving you here.")

2. Date rape is WAY under-reported. I learned this after a good friend tried to rape me, and I started telling people how I was lucky to get him to stop. One girl I told started crying, and when I asked why, she said "With me, he didn't stop ." Another friend said "Sh#t - he did that to my roommate." So imagine how many girls this guy victimized if TWO of the people I told my story to had similar experiences with the same guy. None of us reported him to authorities (although I told as many girls as possible about what happened). A knee to the groin works if you can manage it. Sadly, I know this from experience.

3. The safety info on this thread, especially about walking around drunk and alone APPLIES TO GUYS. Yesterday, they found the body of a Penn State freshman guy who had gone out drinking with friends. Fraternity party to apartment to fraternity. His friends left him at the last fraternity, and when he attempted to walk home, it seems as though he fell into an (outside) stairwell (stairs to the basement of a building), where his body was found a day later. If his friends had INSISTED that he return to the dorms with them, this is far less likely to have happened. Safety in numbers, folks.

[Munchkin03]

When my father was dropping me off at college, he told me never to put my drink down, and that if I put down a drink that I should never pick it back up. (This was in 1999, the height of the roofies craze.)

Well, I took his advice and if I ever needed to go outside (this was back when you could smoke in fraternity houses in RI) or to the bathroom, I would just chug the rest of what I had.

That was clearly not that Papa had in mind.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Well, I took his advice and if I ever needed to go outside (this was back when you could smoke in fraternity houses in RI) or to the bathroom, I would just chug the rest of what I had.

That was clearly not that Papa had in mind.

HAHA.

On a safety note:

Always make sure that someone knows where you're going when you leave!

Just a safety thing, that way if you don't come home in the AM or something, someone knows where you said you were going.

Example: If you tell your roomie that you were headed to work and would be home at 8 PM, then she knows to be concerned if it gets to be like 3 AM and you're still gone.

Or if you write on your whiteboard "out at Sig Ep xoxo," and someone notices the next day that it's like 4pm, they haven't seen you, and you haven't been to classes or work, they know the last place you went.

Most of the time, if you're late coming home, it's probably no big deal (girls stay over after parties and stuff all the time).

But you just never know.