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Post by purplehaze on Sept 13, 2017 12:34:34 GMT -5
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 13, 2017 13:23:19 GMT -5
Sad to see. I hope they learn better behavior...this time.
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Post by Tom on Sept 13, 2017 15:05:11 GMT -5
This is pretty dumb. I'm sure that this happens at 90 percent of the schools. The sports teams in general have a higher percentage of underage frosh/sophs hanging with the 21 year old seniors than is found in the general population at most schools. Yes it's wrong. "Everybody is doing it" is not an excuse. Yet even still, I have some sympathy for college kids being college kids. But if you're going to engage in illegal activities, you really shouldn't electronically advertise it to the world |
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Post by HC92 on Sept 13, 2017 15:17:45 GMT -5
This part seems like a questionable precedent:
Among the University’s findings are that both teams recently participated in an event at which underage members of the teams were provided alcohol . . . .
I know there was more to it in this case but are they going to discipline every team who has Seniors drinking with Sophomores? Won't be many student-athletes or teams left at Bucknell if that's the case.
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Post by Tom on Sept 14, 2017 7:13:50 GMT -5
This part seems like a questionable precedent: Among the University’s findings are that both teams recently participated in an event at which underage members of the teams were provided alcohol . . . . I know there was more to it in this case but are they going to discipline every team who has Seniors drinking with Sophomores? Won't be many student-athletes or teams left at Bucknell if that's the case. Not just Bucknell, but most colleges. Of course, you actually have to catch them doing something wrong. It's one thing for a school to not act on the sophs drinking with the seniors in some dorm room behind a closed door. See no evil, hear no evil. It's a little different when photos are posted to the public domain. Much harder for the school to claim ignorance |
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Post by ncaam on Sept 14, 2017 7:19:34 GMT -5
Underage drinking is a problem. Those of us who survived it are the lucky ones. Much Bucknell may be learning from PSU.
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Post by Tom on Sept 14, 2017 10:59:13 GMT -5
Underage drinking is a problem. Those of us who survived it are the lucky ones. Much Bucknell may be learning from PSU. Yup - underage drinking is illegal - and we want all good citizens to follow the law. It is also not the best plan for younger people whose brains are still in the formative stage. If my guess is correct on your class, your "underage" drinking was as a 16 year old high school student. In my opinion, that's different than a 19 or 20 year old who is old enough to die in service of his/her country but not old enough under current law to have a beer. |
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Post by ncaam on Sept 14, 2017 11:26:49 GMT -5
Underage Drinking
Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States.1
Excessive drinking is responsible for more than 4,300 deaths among underage youth each year, and cost the U.S. $24 billion in economic costs in 2010.2,3
Although drinking by persons under the age of 21 is illegal, people aged 12 to 20 years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States.4 More than 90% of this alcohol is consumed in the form of binge drinks.4
On average, underage drinkers consume more drinks per drinking occasion than adult drinkers.5
In 2010, there were approximately 189,000 emergency rooms visits by persons under age 21 for injuries and other conditions linked to alcohol.
CDC
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Post by Ray on Sept 14, 2017 12:23:35 GMT -5
Good luck trying to get college kids to stop drinking.
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Post by ncaam on Sept 14, 2017 12:48:05 GMT -5
Not trying....just supporting the adults in the room in Lewisburg for doing the right thing.
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