Here's an idea: girls, go out and get so drunk that you can't see straight, and then go home and leave all the doors to your house unlocked. When you wake up with some guy you don't know masturbating on you, yell at him until he leaves, take a shower, go back to sleep and call the police several hours later.

It happened at least four times in East Lansing the weekend of the Notre Dame game. The suspect is not an MSU student, nor does he live in the city.

He apparently didn't check in at the gate at the city limits that protects naive college students.

Or, guys, drink 12 beers and a shot of vodka. Go to a local fraternity party and start talking "smack" to a guy trying to dunk a basketball. He'll say something back and then a fight will start and one of you will get hit across the neck with a broken beer bottle.

The surgeon who operated on the victim said that the cut was literally one millimeter from his jugular vein, and had it struck his vein, he would have died within thirty seconds. Both the suspect and the victim are MSU students. It happened the weekend of the Notre Dame game.

For your 21st birthday try this: go out with all your girlfriends and get so drunk that you vomit, urinate and defecate all over yourself. Your friends should write what you had to drink on your arm so the doctor in the emergency room knows how long to pump your stomach.

Finally, when the police officer asks you if you've ever heard of Bradley McCue (he died on his 21st birthday after drinking 21 shots), tell them that you got a birthday card from him.

It happened the weekend of the Notre Dame game.

Or, get drunk and then get behind the wheel of a car. Use whatever lanes you want, cruise down the road at a high speed and run a red light. Drive head-on into another car carrying two unsuspecting travelers and hope everything turns out okay.

It happened the weekend of the Notre Dame game.

I've got one more: get some naive freshmen girls to come over for a game or seven of beer pong. Get them so drunk that they pass out and then sexually assault them. Hopefully, they won't report it because of all the reasons sexual assault victims don't report the crime, or they just won't remember.

Besides, if they do, it's your word against theirs, right? If you do get convicted, three to 15 years in prison can't be that bad. How awful can it be to have to register as a sex offender?

It happened the weekend of the Notre Dame game.

"It's a college town and they were just having fun," or "they just got carried away." This is what I hear from most parents when I call them to tell them that their student got arrested. The exception, of course, comes from the parents of the kids who died or were sent to jail. Or the mother and father who had to pick up their daughter from my office and bring her home from school because she was so traumatized by her rape that she couldn't face going back to classes.

I'm sure these parents would also tell you that their lives have changed forever and their hearts are forever broken.

Incidents like these happen every weekend in East Lansing. Ryan Getz, Brandon D'Annunzio, and Brad McCue all died in events very similar to these because they just got carried away. I know all of their names by heart. I've spoken to all their parents at the time of their death, and I've seen the devastation that acts like these cause. They were all good kids. I'm sure none of them ever thought that something like this would happen to them.

Maybe you will find this column sarcastic, shocking, offensive or just another attempt by an "adult" to look down their nose at you and tell you to behave. It's meant to get your attention and make you think about the things you do and don't do and the way you act.

The truth is, you are all adults now and no one can force you to be responsible, to use your common sense, to be civil or to learn from others' mistakes.

I'm sure you all realize there are potential consequences for all types of behavior, but the decision is still yours. I truly believe that most of you are good people but, at times, some of you just get carried away.

Juli Liebler is the East Lansing police Captain. Reach her at jlieble@ci.east-lansing.mi.us