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E-PrinceWhat if someone died? It’s the nightmare scenario, one that, as President Tilghman writes on today’s Opinion page, keeps her up at night: a Princeton undergraduate who dies from alcohol poisoning.
While the University has not recently experienced ...
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FRAT LIVES!!!!
Inane.
I really don't feel that administrators are doing enough to aggressively tackle this issue. And no, lowering the drinking age to 18 is not going to solve all of our problems; just look at Russia as an example. Unfortunately, the problem is universally a matter of state of mind, and the drinking culture in this country cannot cater to abstinence or sparred drinking. The nature of moderate to heavy drinking is much more personal or intrinsic than what has been given its due. It appears therefore that an effective solution to the problem would be urgently prompted by having more alcohol-related deaths or disasters.
Gimme a break...This is all a front. If someone dies, Princeton can say..."We had this program in place" and "we constantly review our alcohol policy". It is a shield against a potential lawsuit.
"I really don't feel that administrators are doing enough to aggressively tackle this issue... It appears therefore that an effective solution to the problem would be urgently prompted by having more alcohol-related deaths or disasters."
Ahem, didn't you just contradict yourself? Unless you mean the administration should serve Belvedere in the dining halls every night.
Binge drinking is associated with neurocognitive deficits of frontal lobe processing and impaired working memory as well as delayed auditory and verbal memory deficits. Recent research has found that young college binge drinkers who drink 4/5+ drinks on more than 3 occasions in the past 2 weeks are statistically 19 times more likely to develop alcoholism than non-binge drinkers.[12]
The bladder may rupture if overfilled and not emptied, however urination can alleviate this problem. This can occur in the case of binge drinkers who have consumed very large quantities, but are not aware, due to stupor, of the need to urinate. This condition is very rare in women, but does occur. Symptoms include localized pain and uraemia (poisoning due to reabsorbed waste). The recovery rate is high, with most fatalities due to septic blood poisoning. A person is more likely to urinate while passed out before the bladder ruptures, as alcohol relaxes the muscles that normally control their bladder.[13] A more common risk of consuming massive quantities of alcohol in a short period of time is a dangerously high blood alcohol level. The result is called alcohol poisoning (overdose), which can be fatal. Choking on (or inhalation of) vomit is also a potential cause of death, as are injuries from falls, fights, motor vehicle and bicycle accidents.
@Sophomoric
Uh...no, my statement was not contradictory. By continuing to do little to address the problem, a slew of alcohol-related incidents would probably eventually occur and pressure administrators to impulsively and aggressively react by restricting, or cracking down on, alcohol consumption. Hence, a bad problem could lead to a positive solution. Of course, the administrators could provoke the incidents themselves and end up like criminals as well, which would simply be stupid. Perhaps, your confusion lies in disambiguation of 'making' something happen and 'letting' something happen. I mean 'having' as in 'letting'. My arguments then proceeded to say that the issue of alcohol consumption is ultimately moral and personal.
Tilghman is full of it. She would not lose one drop of sleep for us. The only thing that would keep her up would be the thought that bad publicity could make us go down a rating on U.S. News or that her precious school would have to face a law suit. Don't worry, we won't sue you. Now leave us alone.
Hopefully the U will continue to understand that it is essentially impossible to drink to a dangerous level when consuming the kind of drinks you get for free on the street. Any policy (or event) that discourages drinking on the street will necessarily encourage higher risk drinking on campus. Ask any eating club that has hosted a dry freshman or sophomore formal how many dangerously drunk people they send to McCosh compared to a non-dry event.
...as opposed to the real, and occasionally repeating occurrence, of princeton students committing suicide on campus...