You should read this article IF

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<p>If you think Duke University is unusual in it’s drinking/party culture,</p>

<p>If you think that helmet sports have a monopoly on getting into trouble with drinking and sexual assault.</p>

<p>If you think that lacrosse teams are uniquely aggressive in drinking and getting into trouble.</p>

<p>If you think mini is making up stories about scatalogical (and other totally disgusting behavior) stories about college students,</p>

<p>ADad posted this link in the Princeton forum this morning and nobody can even muster a reply!</p>

<p>Here is ADad’s thread, article titled, Drunken incidents frighten Princeton</p>

<p>And not a single mention of Duke or lacrosse in the entire article, I think…</p>

<p>I could provide some snappy quotes from the article, but I suggest reading it. I don’t consider myself naive, but there was a new one for me in there. </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179413[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179413&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Sigh. (ten characters)</p>

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<p>Well, despite the fact that I didn’t fit ANY of the above criteria, I read the aricle, and I thank you, NJres, for posting it. ~berurah</p>

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<p>Nice to see the alumni taking it seriously.</p>

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<p>Having visited Princeton as a corporate recruiter, and having heard from students there that drinking is a top recreation because the small town Princeton is in basically shuts down by 11, the article doesn’t surprise me.</p>

<p>Here’s a blurb for those to lazy to click on the link:</p>

<p>" This month, members of the Tiger Inn, a fraternity-like eating club with a reputation as Princeton’s “Animal House,” pledged to ban alcohol and reform its policies to keep its parties from getting out of hand.</p>

<p>The club’s new policies, prompted in part by an alleged sex crime during a party in November, even forbid any sexual activity beyond kissing on club premises and require that rooms outside common areas be off-limits and locked on party nights.</p>

<p>“In the fall, winter, early spring, there were a number of events that took place that we weren’t too happy about,” said Hap Cooper, a 1982 Princeton graduate who is president of the Inn’s alumni-run board of governors. “That typically resulted from social situations where alcohol was served. In a number of cases, property was damaged, things happened.”</p>

<p>On college campuses, alcohol is a factor in most sex cases, according to university Director of Public Safety Steven Healy and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.</p>

<p>In the Tiger Inn incident, Princeton Borough police charged junior Stuart E. Anderson, 20, with sexually accosting a female student inside the club…</p>

<p>The university’s health department has seen an increase in students reporting sexual assaults. Robinson-Brown said that doesn’t necessarily mean there have been more incidents. It could be a result of increased efforts by health services “to encourage students to come forward…”</p>

<p>From 2002 through 2004, Princeton University reported 21 forcible-sex offenses that prompted criminal investigations, according to the most recent college crime data available online from the U.S. Department of Education. Eight of those alleged incidents occurred in 2002. Ten were reported in 2003 and three in 2004."</p>

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<p>I have a friend whose kids are quite protected, and she is determined that they are going to live at home for college. Sometimes she actually makes sense to me. Maybe many these kids are just too immature to be at college!</p>

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<p>These issues surface regularly at Harvard and Yale as well. And at other colleges. The problems seem to have become worse in recent decades, although I don’t understand why.</p>

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<p>It’s a “Roman” thing? Only they only used to eat only their own vomit. Male bonding? </p>

<p>I don’t, I really don’t get it. I blew more than my share of grass, and drank some beer (so never really developed much of a taste for it); and frankly, wouldn’t mind terribly if my d. occasionally did the same. But this - I just don’t find the romance.</p>

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<p>Projectile vomiting.</p>

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<p>Well, the article says “drinking”. Eh, could have been worse. “Feces eating?” (I shouldn’t have said that - if I thought it, it’s probably been done. :o)</p>

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<p>Terrible…</p>