Often it seems, the answer to a difficult question is the one that people least want to hear. After years of well-intentioned intervention efforts, it seems to me that we have to expand our scope beyond the campus culture to the society as a whole. What is it that makes students do things that are so obviously dangerous and how does our society play a role in that? If anyone is to be held responsible, it should be the culture within which the campuses reside. It seems very easy, once we get the distance attributable to age, to make judgments about what's happening on campuses; the harder part is to look beyond the campus and start demanding answers from the society.
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