2 UGA players arrested--Alcohol involved SHOCKING

dapolla wrote:

Kids this age are GOING to break this particular law, RxCowboy, the way you did and I did and all of us did.

Excuse me, but I NEVER drank underage. I think \"all of us did\" is a really unfair characterization of the many good college kids who wait until they are over 21 to begin to drink.

If you look at the statistics, under aged drinking is associated with much higher rates of alcoholism. I'm glad Coach Richt takes it seriously, and I hope he gets these kids straightened out for their own sakes.

I would venture to say underage drinking in Athens is the norm. Not to say it's the right thing to do but I'm not going to bury my head in the sand either. Binge drinking is a major problem on college campuses all over the country and Athens, Ga. is party central. Let's not kid ourselves.
Good students, bad students, hell, brilliant students, a lot of them drink. Female binge drinking is a real problem. As a parent of a nineteen year old daughter at UNC, I worry. You raise them the best you can and hope they toe the line.
At nineteen I was no saint. I was fortunate to escape the sixties intact.

Geez.....after my college days.....I'm just glad to be ALIVE!!

GooseDawg78 posted:
You know, I'd be willing to bet that at least 90% of all the under 21 years old college students in Athens are engaging in underage drinking (Just wanted to make that point, I leave it up to you guys to interpret it for what it's worth).

Think that the statement in italic pretty much gives a position of where GooseDawg78 is coming from.

RXCowboy posted:
First, if you're going to quote a statistic like \"90%\" then you need to supply data to back it up. I'll wager the percentage is a LOT smaller. Second, that others are doing it is no excuse. They know the law.

While RXCowboy gave no percentage, he did say he would \"wager\" that fewer than 90% of the under 21 age students use or have used alcohol. That I take as his opinion, not based on statistics. I feel sure that using the word \"wager\" was not used as actually wagering or betting, that is breaking the law. Sometimes all of us can be too literal.

At some point we are all responsible for not only our actions but also for those that walk among us.

Personally, I know that under age drinking is a huge problem, need not look further than your TV set some evenings. As to whether it is a larger problem now than when I was coming up in the 50's and 60's, yes without a doubt it is a much larger problem.

We take the monies from the breweries to pay for the airing, and when you look at the commercials . . . . who are they targeting? Not 65 year olds. Same can be said of the hamburger ads . . . . who are they targeting? Not 65 year olds.

We raise our children a lot of times too strictly . . . other cases we are too lenient. Who knows what the statistics are, let us all do our best to maintain a balance that is somewhere in between. I do say this, part of growing up is experimenting, and that started somewhere around Adam and Eve. Go Dawgs!

HEAR, HEAR !!!

RxCowboy wrote:

GooseDawg78 wrote:

You know, I'd be willing to bet that at least 90% of all the under 21 years old college students in Athens are engaging in underage drinking

First, if you're going to quote a statistic like \"90%\" then you need to supply data to back it up. I'll wager the percentage is a LOT smaller.

This statement got me curious--just how close is goosedawg's estimate?? This is copied and pasted from the National Institute of Health's website--www.nih.gov:

• The 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimates there are 11 million underage drinkers in the United States. Forty-one percent of current 8th graders, 63 percent of 10th graders, 75 percent of 12th graders, and 87 percent of college students have tried alcohol.

87% is pretty close to goose's 90% estimate.