Students need to understand consequences of drinking

i love drinking.. yah

Since you’re a freshman, I’m going to cut you some slack and fill you in on a little piece of information.

1. Students already understand the consequences.
2. They don’t care.

They would much rather drink and party until someone gets hurt or arrested, and then the bar, the cops, and everyone else but themselves. It’s the American way.

Whoops, that’s and then blame the bar, the cops, and everyone else but themselves.

Its all about quality vs quantity. You can reflect on your freshman year and say “remember that time we were drunk and ….” or you could recount your college career of staying in or going bowling every Fri at the Union. To me I would rather take the risks.

Also drinking in college prepares you for the real world where alcohol is everywhere. Ever been on a golf course or at a bar and notice all the business that goes on there? Having sad social skills but a high GPA will get you a job nowhere but a laboratory.

BTW, I graduated undergrad with a above a 3.9 and went to burger rama and ricks religiously.

Quoting Life Choices

“Its all about quality vs quantity. You can reflect on your freshman year and say “remember that time we were drunk and ….” or you could recount your college career of staying in or going bowling every Fri at the Union. To me I would rather take the risks.

Also drinking in college prepares you for the real world where alcohol is everywhere. Ever been on a golf course or at a bar and notice all the business that goes on there? Having sad social skills but a high GPA will get you a job nowhere but a laboratory.

BTW, I graduated undergrad with a above a 3.9 and went to burger rama and ricks religiously.”

that 3.9 was probably in a tough and rewarding major like communications or history or another equally useful and rewarding major.

Still the poster makes a good point about balance but his jab at laboratory jobs is a bit out of touch with reality.

Why are you here?! In case you haven’t noticed, MSU is for rednecks, heavy partiers, and those who messed up earlier in their education. If you’re not a total loser and you care about your education, a transfer to U-M is in line.

I had a number of friends that transferred to UoM. They said the education is no different, but the people suck. And the girls are ugly. So **** off dbag, come to EL and say that.

Anupama:

“It seems the heaviest drinkers on college campuses are students who live in a fraternity, sorority or in a residence hall.”

What about those in apartments? Wouldn’t you say they are just as guilty, and maybe more so? Of course there are many “good” people in the apartments as well….. but you will still have to answer yes. So when you do, you’ll have to realize two things:

1.) That you have now included everyone but commuters, and
2.) You can’t say that the heaviest drinkers hail from particular living quarters, it’s just dumb. (although, you can about fraternities if you want, because they’re d-bags)

“…even banning alcohol from campus altogether, which could result in opposition and retaliation from students.”

…. and alumni, fans of sports, etc….. And now you sound like even more of a dumbass because without drinking you will turn away money from alumni that were drinkers in college, you’ll turn away prospective students that want this aspect in their college life, you’ll turn away sports enthusiasts that, oh my goodness, SPEND MONEY at the university! This just in: universities aren’t just here for you to learn, they need to make money!

I’m sorry. You’re not a dumbass, just naive. There’s hope for you yet, you’re only a freshman—not to necessarily learn about drinking… no, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m just saying there’s hope for you to not be a dumbass.

To quote the Free Beer and Hot Wings morning show:

“I like drinking.”

Anupama, you sound a little stressed from classes. Have a drink, it will do you a world of wonder.

Consider me a case study for how naive this article is – binge drank four days a week at MSU for four years while living in dorms, apartments on-campus, apartments off-campus, and in a house, graduated with a 3.7 BSCE and landed a solid job. Now happily married with kids, living in a cozy house in suburbia, and still successful at work and active in the community. And guess what? My wife and I now take turns getting crocked on the weekends (somebody’s gotta watch the kid). The key is to know how to balance the partying and education. Don’t be such a stick in the mud.

Dear American: You blew your point with your rant about the guys possible origins. Is is possible Anupama was born in the US and just might actually be an “American” himself. Not everyone is named Dick or Bobby or Jane….Get a grip and find another moniker other then “American” cuz you ain’t much of a representative for the country bro.

@American, does that name really sound Middle Eastern to you? Not that it would make your idiotic comment any less repulsive, but I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the writer isn’t from the Middle East. You idiot.

That being said, this letter is absolutely ridiculous. Is the thinking behind that since prohibition always works so well we should try it on college campuses?

The whole point of the Amethyst Initiative is harm reduction. There really isn’t anything that colleges or communities can do to stop drinking altogether, so policies need to take that into consideration.

I think the writer forgot the second part of the greatest line about alcohol ever written: it’s the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

American:
Most likely you got the religion wrong. Most Indians are Hindu. Quit while you are behind.

13.4% practice Islam

FYI-

Islam is the 2nd biggest religion in India at about 15-20%. I’m a gambling man; I like these odds. Maybe American is too.

This letter may demonstrate why this freshman chose engineering as opposed to anything to do with logic, reasoning and/or writing.

Most of us are here by choice, so why is it that you feel the University should have the “right” to interfere with students’ personal lives.

I am just going to resort to saying this is the most poorly written and elementary opinion I have read in my 3 years here.

Imagine, if you will, a question mark after the second sentence.

Justin: I agree that this is an ill-conceived opinion piece. Don’t knock on the engineers; everything we do is based on logic and reasoning!

Like ~80%>>>15%.

im saving my comment for tonight when im drunk

Bob Dylan said, “don’t criticize what you can’t understand,” and I think this applies to you, Anupama. Now I’m not advising you to become an alcoholic, but not once in this article did you list off an alternative viewpoint from the casual college drinker’s perspective; which, in itself, not only makes your argument faulty but ignorant as well… that is, unless you can think of a better term for suggesting borderline fascist sanctions against something you’ve (presumably) never tried. Now since you obviously knew you weren’t going to change a majority of college student’s minds with some DARE facts; one can easily assume there’s a motive behind this… someone you know is an alcoholic… maybe you may know a drunk driving victim (which is NOT always underage drinking)… or a more obvious reason, people don’t think you’re “cool” or you don’t “fit in” here and you think it’s because you don’t drink. It’s not that. It’s you. I have several friends that don’t drink and it’s fine. We all understand it’s a choice and no one makes them do it. You just need to lighten up, talk to people, and stop writing page long newspaper opinions about something you know nothing about.

Oh yeah, and I’m a sophomore PLS major who usually drinks at least once a weekend and has a comfortable 3.6 GPA.

Well, I’ve drank on a regular basis all through college (and most of them were binge drinking, gasp!), and guess what? I’m graduating, in 4 years, with honor, and have completed 3 majors. I’ve also been able to hold down two part time jobs this entire time. And guess what? I’ve been accepted to several grad schools, and received two very good financial offers from them. And I did all of this while drinking once or twice a week. I’m not saying that drinking does not have a negative effect on some people’s grades and lives, but these sweeping generalizations? Coming from a freshman? You have a lot to learn and experience before you can pass these judgments.

while it’s fine that everyone can get drunk regularly and get excellent grades, but do you have any idea how annoying it is to be studying at midnight and have drunk people screaming all around you? Imagine there’s no quiet place to study (other than the library, which i will not walk to at midnight).

maybe I am biased (in fact, I know I am) against anyone who drinks but I have my reasons…and alcohol smells so bad (never tried it).
peace! ^-^V

If you have to brag about your endeavors on an online message forum for a newspaper, you have other issues. No one cares about your GPA Lucy et al.

Noise pollution – WTF?

I really don’t know how you earned your degree (bribery perhaps?), however, noise pollution does exist.

“http://www.quiet.org/faq.htm”