Mizzou suspends all fraternity activity; suspected alcohol poisoning

[33girl]

I’m sure students will all stop consuming alcohol if there are no fraternity parties. 🙄🙄🙄

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I’m sure students will all stop consuming alcohol if there are no fraternity parties. 🙄🙄🙄

We say that, and it's true, but not the full story. College-aged students will drink to fit in, to loosen up, to impress(?) the opposite sex, etc. Few will drink just to drink. Eliminate the social pressures, and a significant portion of the drinking goes away.

But it is absolutely correct that fraternities are not the only - and perhaps not even the major - source of said social pressure.

[*winter*]

Eh. It’s not necessary college but the age group.

I grew up in a working class area where a lot of people didn’t go to college at all. When I was 19 or so I’d go home in the weekends and hang out with the non college crowd...and we would do the same stupid things that people were doing on campus in terms of drinking and partying.

Same with the military. AIT was like a big college experience on the weekends with Army 5 days a week.

I’m on r/army and the stories people have about what the 18-21 year old soldiers assigned to them get into on the weekends...yeah. It’s not just college, or just fraternities.

[navane]

The young man is now home with his parents; but, he's blind and cannot speak or walk. Lawsuits have been filed.

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-mi...104515829.html