<p>Particularly for the teens who may be lurking, here’s a post by Lucifer11287.
"Take your talk of “haze” elsewhere - I enjoy drinking, but I certainly don’t go through life in a haze. I’m on track to either double or triple major plus get an MEng in 8 semesters, I run marathons for fun, and generally live life to its fullest. I do not drink myself into a stupor and waste days, months and years. Drinking is a recreational activity that I very much enjoy, but I keep it in its place - drinking only with friends and only when it won’t interfere with my other goals (I’m not Bode Miller, I don’t drink before marathons or prelims). Alcohol hasn’t limited me in any way, nor has it ever prevented me from achieving success. I’m sorry that alcohol has caused you such problems, binx, but I’m not telling you to drink. I’m just counteracting the anti-alcohol posts that everyone else seems to have and saying that it is possible for alcohol to be a positive, enjoyable thing. That, and also showing that liability wise that drunk driving (or other dangerous activity after drinking, like drunk jetskiing) is by far the biggest problem because it is far easier and far more likely that someone will drink and drive and kill themselves/someone else than it is they will drink enough to stop breathing.</p>
<p>dke, that is ridiculous even for me. It’s one thing for 16 year olds and 18 year olds to drink, quite another for 11 year olds to drink.</p>
<p>Emeraldkity4, there are plenty of teens who are capable and competent enough to handle themselves and don’t need much, if any, supervision; the amount of supervision necesscary depends on the kid."
That was posted Jan. 11 of this year in the Parents’ Cafe.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to a thread after Lucifer died from an alcohol overdose after partying with friends at U Va. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=159778&highlight=lucifer+alcohol+died[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=159778&highlight=lucifer+alcohol+died</a></p>
<p>It’s easy to verify that this is true by using a search engine His hometown newspaper, the St. Louis Post Dispatch even did a story about how an admired Cornell freshman with an outstanding academic record drank himself to death at U Va. The story also says he posted here and elswhere as
Lucifer11287.</p>