On the next note of lowering the drinking age, I believe that is a separate issue from anything else discussed in the article. There will still be irresponsible 18-year-olds, just as there are irresponsible 21-year-olds — who are of age and still get penalized. Therefore, just because you lower it doesn’t mean alcohol violations will cease to be given. However, like I said, that is a completely separate issue up for debate everywhere in our country.
In response to the alcohol classes Tech provides, what is the alternative? Instead of criticizing what is offered and leaving it at that, come up with an idea yourself.
The students of this school can at any point discuss this issue and start to come up with ideas of their own that could actually help people that have issues with alcohol.
Yes, alcoholics exist, so before you put down a program that tries to help people learn from their mistakes, why don’t you come up with an idea that could benefit students more?
Tech handles the alcohol education sanctions very well, and I doubt that the previous author has sat in an alcohol education class. I could be wrong on this statement, but if I am right I am guessing the information about these classes has been secondhand. Therefore, if anyone hasn’t had firsthand experience then I do not believe they can completely write off the classes just yet.
If you have a problem with the amount of money in fees that is spent by students, then try considering that if you don’t get in trouble then you don’t have to pay any fees. It is simple, be responsible and you won’t have to complain about fees for classes you don’t have time or money to put forth.
Overall, Tech deals with the problems that occur on and off campus in regards to alcohol in a very professional manner. If there is ever an issue with this then our campus will always listen to students’ opinions on the
matter.
However, I believe the system works just as it is and criticizing it without offering up any possible alternatives and making comparisons that are outlandish, is not the way to go about changing anything. Why change a process that sets out to truly help the students learn from their errors and become more responsible?
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A version of this article appeared in the Mar 26 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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Hahaha I don't understand how you could even suggest that the current alcohol policy is the most effective. What past policies or other universities are you comparing these to? Also, are you a member of the Westboro Baptist Church?
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I think she is comparing it just to the opinion of being ineffective and taking a stance on the other side. Westboro Baptist Church? hahahahaha I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with this article.
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No, I am not...and if that was an attempt at a joke, that wasn't funny. You definitely need to look at what those people are actually saying, it is a hate group.
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This article is a joke.
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I bet you amount to nothing one day. Instead of feeling guilty for your wrong actions you try to justify them by putting someone else down. When you end up divorced and an alcoholic one day, don't think you didn't have the chance to do something about it.
PS: I bet you are close to flunking out because you can't even spell "Lindsay" the right way. Get a life and get your GPA up.
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This article is simply awful. Overlooking the fact that it seems to have been written by a 7th-grader, the argument is complete nonsense. The author throws around unfounded and unsupported claims throughout the entire article.
"Overall, most students choose to inform their parents anyway - I would venture to guess about 90 percent."
Oh really? What evidence is there to support that? Rebutting a prior article with a *guess* is likely the most ridiculous thing I've seen in an article of this nature.
"Tech handles the alcohol sanctions very well, and I doubt the previous author has sat in an alcohol education class. I could be wrong about this statement, but if I am right I am guessing the information about these classes has been secondhand. Therefore, if anyone hasn't had firsthand experience then I do not believe they can completely write off the classes just yet."
This paragraph literally made me laugh out loud when I read it. Complete and utter nonsense. The author makes yet another unsupported claim, followed by an unsupported accusation.
In addition, the author directly addresses the author of the prior article at a few points. I consider this a terrible writing style and just added to the already horrid writing of the article. I can't believe the CT published this. Not because of the author's opinion, but because of the horrible writing and virtually non-existent argument.
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In addition, some of the figures seem wrong (and are, of course, uncited) and presented in an ambiguous manner. But I'm too lazy to verify this, admittedly.
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I don't see you giving any arguments to refute these. It's easy to criticize and belittle someone's article. You could get off your lazy tush and show some evidence to refute these instead of just saying about how bad something is.
I think it's an outstanding article. There is very good evidence to suggest that there are numerous deaths nationwide caused by underage drinking even legal aged drinkers. You're probably one of the people that drinks underage and instead of feeling guilty about breaking the law you put down someone that writes an intelligent article
Next time you write something without putting in statistical evidence and support of your own opinions (correct me if I'm wrong but you said that to do that is a "terrible writing style") and call out someone else for something similar, you shouldn't respond at all without that evidence. You have a terrible writing style to what you call a terrible writing style.
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Perhaps you should read my response again. I was in no way refuting the author's argument. I don't even necessarily disagree with it. I was simply stating that the article was written poorly, and that the CT would have been better suited to print it on toilet paper.
And before you make unfounded assumptions about me, let me just say that I do not drink, and have therefore never been in trouble for drinking. The article was written poorly. Assumptions and guesses were used as rebuttals, and that is laughable. And I gave evidence on two of these (I could have done more) in my first response. My point was that the same argument could have been written much better, using actual evidence instead of assumptions.
So before you criticize something, try to first comprehend what the author was saying. And don't make assumptions about them - you're putting yourself in the same league as the author of this article.
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