NU student found in dorm room

[Jessika]

If, as a society, we took more time to educate/socialize our children to alcohol, its effects, responsible drinking, etc., we could go a long way towards curbing these unfortunate tragedies. I am not talking about 10 year olds, and I am not talking about wild weekend parties in which the purpose of the drink is to get drunk. I am talking about reasonable, and appropriate, use of alcohol. And, yes, I do think alcohol is both reasonable and appropriate. Necessary? Of course not, but, the list of items on the necessary list would be pretty short, wouldn't it?

"Just Say No", raising the drinking age, forbidding alcohol, etc., has proven not to be effective.

Yeah, I do recognize that my opinion is not the majority opinion. Having been raised in a household where drinking was neither abused nor forbidden, I have a healthy respect for alcohol.

I actually agree with you 100%.

Why is it the school's responsibility to teach kids about being responsible with alcohol? If they ban it, they will just sneak it in. I've visited friends in university who stayed in dorms where alcohol wasn't allowed, but do you think they listened? Nope.

I don't think the school should be to blame, I don't think the school should have to "ban" alcohol, either. I think these kids need to mature and learn how to be responsible. Because banned or not, the alcohol will still be there.

[kitten645]

I completely agree. It's part of personal responsibilty at any age. American society in general tends to be puritanical. Responsible drinking should be tought from parents/adults. My parents are Argentinian and drank wine with dinner most nights. I never saw them drunk. I was never told not to drink. I enjoy wine. I don't like beer so I would never drink it. It isn't the school's responsiblity to ban alcohol.
A tragedy none the less.
Claudia

[Catty1]

Well...I bet a lot, if not all, the students in this case got a true and real education. It's not fair that this tragedy had to cause it - but maybe, just maybe, one or more lives may be saved.

[RICHARD]

Stuff and mount the body, then make the kids party with it in the room. It may turn off a few kids to the fact that drinking like a fish may hurt you.
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I can tell you that the parents are thinking/or have been inundated with calls about some kind of lawsuit against the world at large.

If that was my kid, I'd kill them all over again, for being stupid.

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Then you have to look on the bright side. At least the 'friends' you made in school didn't leave you one the street to die, like some kind of frigging drunk.


But, I guess the old adage, LIVE AND LEARN, don't apply here.