Pretty much on par with the CC world. Hundreds of pages about Ferguson, Charleston, and mostly denials about a matter that impacts most of the college life as we know it!
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I can see why there would be more outrage over authority figures causing deaths in the course of (incorrectly) doing their jobs than over people dying or being harmed by the behavior of people who are not authority figures.
That doesn’t mean that alcohol-related deaths, injuries, and assaults on college campuses aren’t a real and important problem. It just means that they don’t trigger the same intense response.
Really? You really don’t understand why there is more outrage over black men being killed by police for basically the crime off daring to exist than idiot college kids who voluntarily drink copious amounts of alcohol?
[total Alcohol-induced deaths for all age groups: 29,001]
Underage and binge drinking is clearly a problem, but it’s one most colleges are already trying to reduce. With less than 0.5% of all alcohol-induced deaths coming from those ages 15-24, it’s hardly “the” item to get outraged about…in fact, alcohol related deaths (including auto accidents) are far more likely to occur to those ages 45+.
What "“Coroner: USC Student … Died of ‘Toxic’ Blood Alcohol Level,” read the headline from The State newspaper in April. … The coroner concluded that a blood alcohol level that high would often be the result of binging or chugging.” was a reference to this story:
@MichiganGeorgia my sister and I are both asthmatic and I am also surprised it’s that low. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised nonetheless. I almost wonder if those deaths are classified as something else with asthma being the underlying rather than primary cause.
Remember when the Boston Marathon bombing happened - around the same time there was the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas. An acquaintance of mine of Facebook who happened to be from Texas started s series of posts about how it was unfair that Boston got more play in the media, the people who died in the explosion were no less valuable, etc. She thought it was media conspiracy theory that the coasts were more important than Texas. Some of us tried to explain that it wasn’t that people didn’t feel bad for the deaths in Texas - it’s that it was more inherently newsworthy that there was a potential terrorist who might strike again (this was when the perps were still not identified and were on the loose). And the coverage of the marathon bombing would have been just as intense if it had been the Chicago marathon. It strikes me that there are a few parallels here - violent actions are inherently more newsworthy than tragic mistakes.
binge drinking is stupid so is taking ecstasy in a night club, smoking pot everyday and drinking expired milk! people of all ages do stupid stuff all the time and lecturing them or “educating” them is a waste of time they know the risk and just do not care. sometimes when people do stupid stuff darwin steps in.
“Pretty much on par with the CC world. Hundreds of pages about Ferguson, Charleston, and mostly denials about a matter that impacts most of the college life as we know it!”
There have certainly been a lot of threads on CC about fraternities and dangerous hazing rituals. Just search binge drinking on this site. Then search fraternity hazing on this site. Pages and pages and pages come up.
Its weird that you would expect “outrage” about the death of a fraternity man, xiggi, considering how many people express their disdain for fraternities both in the media and on this site. Especially for a fraternity man who died doing what those critics claim is about the only thing fraternity men do: drink to excess.
