Couple of recent news stories about college group incidents

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<p>Both events happen to involve groups of females. But I imagine there are examples just as bad involving males too.</p>

<p>[Sorority?s</a> racist party photo stirs outcry on the Web | The Lookout - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/racist-sorority-party-photo-stirs-outrage-181258221.html]Sorority?s”>Sorority’s racist party photo stirs outcry on the Web)</p>

<p>[Florida</a> State?s sales pitch to Andrew Wiggins in the stands was more effective than on the floor | The Dagger: College Basketball Blog - Yahoo! Sports](<a href=“Florida State’s sales pitch to Andrew Wiggins in the stands was more effective than on the floor - Yahoo Sports”>Florida State’s sales pitch to Andrew Wiggins in the stands was more effective than on the floor - Yahoo Sports)</p>

<p>Sometimes I think “oh, well, it’s college” or “kids will be kids.” But they’re not kids. These are 18 to 22 year old young adults.</p>

<p>The decision-making process is what astounds me. What I don’t understand is how most of these students when told “we’re planning to do X” don’t immediately think for just a moment and question the wisdom and appropriateness and reach the conclusion: “Ya know, I don’t think this is such a great idea. I’ll pass.”</p>

<p>And the apparent total disregard for what their parents must be thinking and feeling is interesting too.</p>

<p>I’ve tried to get my children (who are perfect in every way of course) to understand that if they’re not sure about an action or an idea, if they have a question about whether it’s a good thing to do or not … it probably isn’t. </p>

<p>I was going to post this in College Life but decided to post here. I hope students read it also.</p>

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<p>I can add a few more of these stories too but I won’t. In reading a great deal about income inequality in the US I have seen repeated stories about who segregated we have become racially and economically outside of cities. Perhaps a part of this has to do with young people living in bubbles in which they don’t really have enough exposure to different cultures except through stereotypes. </p>

<p>Of course it could also be that we are raising a generation that feels free to act like jerks because there seem to be so few consequences for bad behavior. I think of lying politicians, corruption and dirty dealing in the business world, etc. </p>

<p>(Waiting for the fur to fly…)</p>

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<p>Just because the forebrain grows in a bit faster for women than it does for men, doesn’t mean that young women necessarily have good judgment. Come to think of it, most of us know plenty of men and women who are significantly older than these young women, who exhibit questionable judgment.</p>

<p>The difference between when we parents were in college, and now, is that news can travel much farther and much faster. If we were willing to examine our own memories of our college days, most of us would probably hit on a few things that were cringe-worthy. Most of us prefer to look back on that time through the haze of nostalgia instead.</p>

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<p>I must admit, I may be young, but it’s stories like these that reinforce my out-of-place feeling amongst my peers.</p>