?Another college drinking death?

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<p>Just reading on FoxNews about the missing NJ college student. Starting to shape up like it might be a tragic drinking related event - still early but it gives me a chill.</p>

<p>Between the young man visiting UVa, the drunken hunting trip turned into “Let’s burn something up”, and a young man from our area who fell down the steps at the Univ of Al and broke his neck - it just makes me feel sick, sick at heart, and wondering how we are failing our kids.</p>

<p>I know this may become another anti-drinking anti-frat thread, but sorry, this one just finally got to me.</p>

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<p>“wondering how we are failing our kids.”</p>

<p>Indeed, the sky is falling.</p>

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<p>“I know this may become another anti-drinking anti-frat thread, but sorry, this one just finally got to me.”</p>

<p>The moment it stops getting to us, there is a problem.</p>

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<p>i don’t think you, or any of the parents, failed their kids. i mean, i know parent after parent who try to do everything for their kids, and they still drink… no matter what their parents have instilled in them.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.cspinet.org/booze/collfact1.htm[/url]”>http://www.cspinet.org/booze/collfact1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>S IT SERIOUS?</p>

<p>College presidents agree binge drinking is the most serious problem on campus.
In 1999, Harvard University’s School of Public Health College Alcohol Study surveyed students at 119 colleges. Here are some of the findings:
WHO BINGES?</p>

<p>44% of U.S. college students engaged in binge drinking during the two weeks before the survey.
51% of the MEN drank 5 or more drinks in a row
40% of the WOMEN drank 4 or more drinks in a row
Students more likely to binge drink are white, age 23 or younger, and are residents of a fraternity or sorority. If they were binge drinkers in high school, they were three times more likely to binge in college.
The percentage of students who were binge drinkers was nearly uniform from freshman to senior year, even though students under 21 are prohibited from purchasing alcohol.
Over half the binge drinkers, almost one in four students, were frequent binge drinkers, that is, they binged three or more times in a two-week period. While one in five students reported abstaining from drinking alcohol.
WHY?</p>

<p>Binge drinkers cited the following as important reasons for drinking:</p>

<p>Drinking to get drunk (cited by 47% of students who consumed alcohol)
Status associated with drinking
Culture of alcohol consumption on campus
Peer pressure & academic stress
WHAT EFFECTS?</p>

<p>A higher percentage of binge drinkers than non-binge drinkers reported having experienced alcohol-related problems since the beginning of the school year. Frequent binge drinkers were 21 times more likely than non-binge drinkers to have:</p>

<p>Missed class
Engaged in unplanned sexual activity
Fallen behind in school work
Not used protection when having sex
Damaged property
Gotten in trouble with campus police
Been hurt or injured
Driven a car after drinking
IMPACT ON OTHER STUDENTS</p>

<p>About three out of four students responding to the study reported experiencing at least one adverse consequence of another student’s drinking during the school year. At colleges with a high binge drinking rates:</p>

<p>71% had sleep or study interrupted
23% had a serious argument
57% had to take care of an intoxicated student
16% had property damaged
36% had been insulted or humiliated
11% had been pushed, hit or assaulted
23% had experienced an unwanted sexual
1% had been the victim of a sexual advance Assault or “date rape”
IMPLICATIONS OF THE SURVEY</p>

<p>Binge drinking is a widespread phenomenon on most college campuses, a problem that not only interferes with the mission of higher education but also carries with it serious risks of disease, injury, and death. Findings from the Harvard survey suggest that college and university administrators will want to intensify their search for new approaches to preventing both underage and binge drinking.</p>

<p>Updated March 2000</p>

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<p>some posters need to get some education on the problem:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.health.org/govpubs/rpo995/[/url]”>http://www.health.org/govpubs/rpo995/&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2006/03/31/State/Redhawks.Face.Earlier.Classes.New.Penalties-1775720.shtml?norewrite200603311457&sourcedomain=www.bgnews.com[/url]”>http://www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2006/03/31/State/Redhawks.Face.Earlier.Classes.New.Penalties-1775720.shtml?norewrite200603311457&sourcedomain=www.bgnews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Here is a quote from Barrett Seaman’s article in Time Magazine:</p>

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<p>300 deaths a year! We clearly only hear about a small fraction of them…</p>

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<p>“We clearly only hear about a small fraction of them…”</p>

<p>Because a lot of the stories are buried in local news and very few families who lost someone are willing to go through the ordeal and embarassment of sharing their pain publicly.</p>

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<p>TCNJ has other things beyond drinking.
John Fiocco did go to a party last Friday night, and returned to the dorm where he was seen in the hallway getting a drink of water, and appeared fine. </p>

<p>This is so horrific to report, on the heels of all the other tragedies! </p>

<p>But, somehow, yet to be determined he climbed into/ or fell/ or was pushed down a garbage chute on his 4th floor , and his body (I hate to write this) compacted and believed to be taken by the garbage trucks to a PA landfill. The landfill is being searched tomorrow.</p>

<p>NJ residents are glued to the TV and radio waiting to hear the outcome of the investigation of this absolutely heartbreaking story!</p>

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<p>I feel so very sorry for his parents.</p>

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<p>Oh no! What information did they get that makes this seem plausible? There is not much coverage on this in CA but a poster on another board I frequent knows the family and they are posting the students pic and are asking for any and all info that people may have :(</p>

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<p>The dumpster at the bottom of the chute had blood which was a DNA match. The landfill search was ongoing today. The big mystery is how he got into the chute. He was drinking off campus by the way and had to be helped back to his room. His friend put him to bed and that was the last anyone will acknowledge having seen him.</p>

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<p>terrible story…truth is indeed more mind-boggling and horrific than fiction. traumatic for their college and his friends and family beyond words.</p>

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<p>( On Phila News right now- and I am very sorry to update the rest of the nation about this) </p>

<p>Blood found from missing student
Friday, March 31, 2006
BY KEVIN SHEA AND ROBERT STERN
THE TIMES OF TRENTON
Forensic tests have confirmed that blood found in a trash bin on The College of New Jersey campus in Ewing this week is from John Fiocco Jr., the 19-year-old freshman missing since early Saturday, law enforcement sources said last night</p>

<p>In the Fiocco case, investigators may search a landfill in lower Bucks County, Pa. A portion of the landfill, in Tullytown, Pa., has been sectioned off to prevent more trash from being dumped there, a source said. </p>

<p>Officials at the company that hauls trash from the campus, Midco Waste Systems, and the landfill operator, Waste Management, could not be reached for comment.</p>

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<p>That is so very sad.</p>

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<p>Can anyone imagine anything more horrifying than your child’s body in the trash. This is just too awful to imagine :(</p>

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<p>Now you understand why I just became ill when i read it.</p>

<p>The other incident I referred to is one of those unpublicized 300 deaths. Young man of legal age, had been drinking, fell down a flight of steps at college and died - not as horrific as this terrible thing, but just as sad.</p>

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<p>I heard about this young man, fooling around with friends, drinking involved, feel 4 floors, was in a coma, and has a long recovery ahead</p>

<p>so sad</p>

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<p><a href=“http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/kid_drug_abuse/index.html[/url]”>http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/kid_drug_abuse/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2005/05/alcohol_deaths_.html#more[/url]”>http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2005/05/alcohol_deaths_.html#more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Lots of sad stories and photos.</p>

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<p>Perhaps the “small fraction” 0f 300 that make the big news tend to be about kids from “top tier” schools. A kid dying at a non-flagship state school or third tier LAC isn’t going to make the news. Sad.</p>