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octo
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thc
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:42 am
Post subject: Re: Berkeley student died drunk |
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octogenarian@hotmail.com (octo) wrote in message news:<a0eff15b.0403301002.74c83d31@posting.google.com>...
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What a waste of human resource.
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A tragic waste. I feel so sorry for his parents.
I'm not sure which is more to blame, the Beer and Circus atmosphere on
many campuses (fueled by D-1 sports frenzies), or the Prohibitionary
Puritanical U.S. culture that makes drinking so taboo and therefore so
attractive to some young people away from home and off the leash for
the first time. If you raise young people in an over-protected hot
house, the first frost that comes along can kill. |
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David Haardt
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:57 pm
Post subject: Re: Berkeley student died drunk |
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cthcarter@aol.com (thc) wrote:
| Quote: | octogenarian@hotmail.com (octo) wrote:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/8310358.htm
What a waste of human resource.
A tragic waste. I feel so sorry for his parents.
I'm not sure which is more to blame, the Beer and Circus atmosphere on
many campuses (fueled by D-1 sports frenzies), or the Prohibitionary
Puritanical U.S. culture that makes drinking so taboo and therefore so
attractive to some young people away from home and off the leash for
the first time. If you raise young people in an over-protected hot
house, the first frost that comes along can kill.
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How right you are. In Austria, which is where I come from, the average
14-year-old pupil probably drinks much more alcohol than the average
US college student, and still they hardly /die/ from doing so. This is
not to say that drinking lots of alcohol at age 14 is a good idea, but
I think prohibition until age 21 isn't either.
-David Haardt |
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Joshua P. Hill
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:33 am
Post subject: Re: Berkeley student died drunk |
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On 30 Mar 2004 18:42:27 -0800, cthcarter@aol.com (thc) wrote:
| Quote: | octogenarian@hotmail.com (octo) wrote in message news:<a0eff15b.0403301002.74c83d31@posting.google.com>...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/8310358.htm
What a waste of human resource.
A tragic waste. I feel so sorry for his parents.
I'm not sure which is more to blame, the Beer and Circus atmosphere on
many campuses (fueled by D-1 sports frenzies), or the Prohibitionary
Puritanical U.S. culture that makes drinking so taboo and therefore so
attractive to some young people away from home and off the leash for
the first time. If you raise young people in an over-protected hot
house, the first frost that comes along can kill.
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Agreed. We should require kids to act responsibly rather than
pretending that they'll act like they're eight years old until they're
21
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Josh
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