Drinking at Universities and underage drinking are both huge problems going around in our society today. Young adults in colleges are unable to go to a social event without alcohol beverages being in there surroundings. An estimated of 63,718 deaths were attributable to harmful drinking in the U.S. in 2000. Of these deaths, 45,988 were to males (4 percent of all deaths among males) and 17,730 were to females(Washington News). Not only is this around the U.S but in our Universities. Death caused by drinking at a university is not a rare thing to witness now days. Everynight young men and women go out to experience the life of the party, the night life, they attend bars, clubs, lounges, pubs to absorb alcohol and have a good time with friends. You may ask yourself how could these children get into these type of social events and drink without being of legal age, well the answer is simple, fake ID's. According to the law possesion of fake identification is a Class C Misdemeanor, but yet there are still students trying to get one. Teens can find Fake ID's with just a few keystrokes on the web, this is because the demand for them are so high. Students are eager to get fake's to be able to participate or fit in.
Reading tonight on CNN I came across an article regarding University Drinking. Drury Univeristy in Springfield, MO has banned hard liquor on the campus to crackdown on binge drinking. This even banned the students of legal age from drinking any type of hard liquor on the school campus. Drury University has put two fraternities on suspension and made others do community service and pay fines. School is a place to learn and by passings this new rule Drury University is certainly going to have a lesser problem amoung the fraternity parties and other types of social events on campus. Students are beings killed and families are gettings hurt because of mass amounts of alcohol. SMU has had many deaths throughout the years and most of them were caused by alcohol. Last year at SMU in a six month time period three students passed away and two out of the three were being of alcohol while the other was caused by an overdose. This year just recently was not a student from SMU, but approximately two weeks ago a drunk driver injured five SMU students and also killed newlyweds. Untill this day I am puzzled for what the correct solution is to prevent all of these things from happening. Should more Universities take part in this rule or create there own in order to solve these drinking hazards?
http://www.kmbc.com/cnn-news/17544715/detail.html
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
My Favorite Iraqi!
While eating lunch today with my suit mates we received a phone call telling us to get on youtube and watch this amazing documentary on a true Iraqi gangster. An Iraqi gangster with a powerful gift, the people around him rejoice when he walks the grounds of Iraq. He seems to be a very strong leader at an early age with an ability to dance like no other, and has the right hand of Muhammed Ali. Ok, I'm just messing with you.
This video is literally one of the funniest videos I have seen in a while. In our dorm we were laughing so hard we could not finish our food. It starts out with this little chubby Iraqi kid in the distance break dancing out of no where while he is walking over to this other kid he is about to punish. This little Iraqi literally could punk everyone on his block. And to wrap everything up, he decides to throw a rock at the guy he was pounding in his UFC debut to make the point that he's the baddest guy on the block and fears no one!
Bullying is such a huge deal at early ages, and you may say that its such a bad thing too. But I'm sorry this is the coolest fat kid ever!
MUST SEE VIDEO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKFAqoGRBs8
On a more serious note there is a big problem here too. In this video it shows many other problems that is happening in Iraq. Children at an early age are doing things that shows no discipline which makes Iraq look horrible. Of course this is a third world country and poverty is a big deal there but events like these need to be fixed by Iraqi people.
This video is literally one of the funniest videos I have seen in a while. In our dorm we were laughing so hard we could not finish our food. It starts out with this little chubby Iraqi kid in the distance break dancing out of no where while he is walking over to this other kid he is about to punish. This little Iraqi literally could punk everyone on his block. And to wrap everything up, he decides to throw a rock at the guy he was pounding in his UFC debut to make the point that he's the baddest guy on the block and fears no one!
Bullying is such a huge deal at early ages, and you may say that its such a bad thing too. But I'm sorry this is the coolest fat kid ever!
MUST SEE VIDEO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKFAqoGRBs8
On a more serious note there is a big problem here too. In this video it shows many other problems that is happening in Iraq. Children at an early age are doing things that shows no discipline which makes Iraq look horrible. Of course this is a third world country and poverty is a big deal there but events like these need to be fixed by Iraqi people.
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