<p>I was asking because you only seem to see one solution to the problem, and you don’t seem to want to address the problems that come along with having the security companies busting into private residences. I didn’t say you did work for one, I simply asked, since if you did it would be pointless to argue about any other solutions.</p>
<p>The truth is if you’re living in a college town you’re going to have to accept that there will be drinking around you. For many students it is legal and for all students it is accepted, and nothing is going to change that. I of course hope that neither you nor your family, or anyone else for that matter, gets into a wreck with a drunken driver. What I’m saying is that there are better ways to approach the problem than security companies, and that security companies policing the apartment complexes isn’t feasible.</p>
<p>I don’t really consider this to be a contest, just a discussion. Or debate, though you don’t seem to be into addressing concerns or points that I make. Why do you expect people to listen to what you’re saying when you won’t listen to another side of an argument? And yes, I do go to and even host (occasionally) “these parties.” If I didn’t I wouldn’t be able to speak with as much experience on the issue. When I host we do try to make sure nobody drives drunk, but it’s usually a moot point since there is not enough guest parking at my complex, especially on weekends, for anyone to drive to the party in the first place. We do try to clear out everyone who doesn’t live in the same complex to leave by the last bus though. If you’re suggesting that attending those parties somehow weakens anything I’ve said I don’t think you’ll find many that agree with you.</p>
<p>The ironic thing is that you seem more concerned with the people who live at the complexes when it comes to drunken driving. Those are the people who AREN’T doing it, since they’re already there. The drunk drivers are the ones who are going to the complex from somewhere else. So putting your kid in off campus housing, if anything, may increase the odds that they drink more but will decrease the odds that they drive drunk.</p>
<p>Also, good luck getting a motel during a football season weekend, which isn’t exactly representative of the rest of the year, since they only happen 6 times a year.</p>
<p>edit: And no, I don’t work for an apartment complex or anything related to one. I’m a student at VT. I’d like to not die as much as you.</p>