tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post9217656578290188612..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Baptist Kids, Amirite?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-88999987360443639122014-12-23T19:44:32.561-05:002014-12-23T19:44:32.561-05:00I think a reduction in legal drinking age should n...I think a reduction in legal drinking age should not be accompanied by a reduction in legal purchase age. I confess that this is wholly a proposition about social engineering. <br /><br />Modelling reasonable consumption, along with the education that Cassandra suggests, and removing some of the allure of the forbidden (fermented) fruit seems to be a good way to go. I think that allowing parentsOgre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-52386445075289611512014-12-22T20:31:42.786-05:002014-12-22T20:31:42.786-05:00My bad. And I'm touched by all your thoughtful...My bad. And I'm touched by all your thoughtful and positive responses to this story. Where are our trolls, who think we're all uncaring whiners?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-33507483269747935732014-12-22T15:50:41.507-05:002014-12-22T15:50:41.507-05:00I'm just 2 hours away from there. Georgetown h...I'm just 2 hours away from there. Georgetown has some terrific NAIA sports teams, and I was on their campus twice (2001 and 2009) for a rather cool conference about the humanities, blah blah blah.<br /><br />And one of our newer faculty members (some science; who remembers) did undergrad work there and raved about it.<br /><br />So, good kids, bad kids, church school, whatever, they are stillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-10835753980023119782014-12-22T12:57:28.409-05:002014-12-22T12:57:28.409-05:00I taught at Georgetown a few years. I sent the lin...I taught at Georgetown a few years. I sent the link to Terry originally, though others may have as well. <br /><br />The kids there are fantastically nice and gentle souls. Truly. In my time there incidents like this were extraordinarily rare. It's the most well-behaved campus I'd ever spent time on. I still have great friends at the college and they have all been shaken by this event.Compound Calicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059155949950433688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-406718799229448482014-12-22T12:45:49.010-05:002014-12-22T12:45:49.010-05:00I was initially confused, too, and then remembered...I was initially confused, too, and then remembered that there's a Georgetown, KY. <br /><br />Of course, Georgetown U students are pretty well known for their drinking, too (and bars in the neighborhood used to serve 16-year-olds on a regular basis; of course, that was when the drinking age was 18. In fact, if I'm remembering correctly, there was a time when the drinking age was lower Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-65179490553917959402014-12-22T12:38:37.679-05:002014-12-22T12:38:37.679-05:00I'm generally inclined to think that a good ma...I'm generally inclined to think that a good many of the non-academic problems on college campuses(and probably some of the academic ones, too) would be solved if we lowered the drinking age back to 18, and tried hard to teach students about responsible drinking (including the dangers of binge drinking, what levels of intoxication are medically dangerous, etc., etc.) I've even wondered Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-79893005021035863272014-12-22T06:12:19.899-05:002014-12-22T06:12:19.899-05:00You're probably thinking of Georgetown Univers...You're probably thinking of Georgetown University in DC. This is an older college in Kentucky. College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-61017094968648993222014-12-22T06:09:57.871-05:002014-12-22T06:09:57.871-05:00Baptist? Georgetown is a Catholic university run b...Baptist? Georgetown is a Catholic university run by Jesuits. <br /><br />Poor dumb kid. Good thing he called 911. What a merry Christmas that family's going to have. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-30810275286907167312014-12-21T23:29:26.294-05:002014-12-21T23:29:26.294-05:00Um, folks? A 0.195 is not three times the legal li...Um, folks? A 0.195 is not three times the legal limit. He was drinking under age: the legal limit for that is zero.<br /><br />Something I learned in college is that, if there's anything I hate, it's someone with a big vomit streak down their front. How refreshing that the four idiots who helped him do this are now learning what "responsibility" means, for a great and radical Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.com