Should colleges, fraternities, or bars be held legally responsible for the alcohol-related deaths of students? Should they be considered morally responsible?
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"I know I am coming in on this discussion a little late but I thought I would put my two cents in..."
"The real tragedy here is that we spent more than five minutes thinking about it. Enforce the..."
"Perhaps if we stop demonizing alcohol and those that use it..."
"I myself am a fraternity member (Tau Kappa Epsilon), but have never been around, or known anyone who was forced to drink..."
"Universities, fraternities and establishments that serve alcohol not only should be held responsible for the deaths of students..."
"The issue of abusive drinking by college students is totally out of control..."
"I have been reading the debate on where to place the blame for alcohol-related deaths and injuries..."
"I think that trying to take fraternities to task by either a lawsuit or even new legislation would only move such activities underground,..."
"A sixteen-year-old can sign him/herself out of school without parental intervention. An eighteen-year-old is a bona fide adult,..."
"M.I.T.'s rushing system was bad 45 years ago when I was a freshman and it seems not to have improved,..."
"I am not sure who is necessarily 'to blame'..."
"I rarely engage in these discussions, because I work with campuses,..."
"It seems as though the consumption of alcohol at fraternities and sororities has become a right of passage..."
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"Placing blame is counterproductive. Shaming and blaming are not conducive to learning or our teaching missions..."
"We can point the finger at many folks, fraternities, universities, bars, alcohol manufacturers, even society..."
"The drug dealers control the conversation on either side of the legal economy/illegal-underground economy based on abused substances..."
"Many of Prof. Levi's statements are incorrect, in both letter and spirit..."
"I think the university that believes it can protect all students from the consequences of excessive use of alcohol/drugs is deceiving itself..."
"How about holding the students themselves responsible for their behavior?..."
"Are we, the institutions, to blame for the deaths of these students?..."
"I think that bars that allow people, especially underage people, to consume alcohol to the point where death can occur..."
"Often it seems, the answer to a difficult question is the one that people least want to hear..."
"Personal responsibility has a nice ring to it, but when a university forces its students into fraternities..."
"I feel that the university should be liable to a certain degree..."
"In regards to the "Who's responsible?" debate on alcohol deaths: I feel we need to look at this from a much more multi-dimensional approach than we have been..."
"If there's an incident of obvious coercion -- as in fraternity hazing -- legal action might be warranted. If it can be proven that a drinking establishment knowingly..."
"It's simple. If we are to uphold the various mission statements of our institutions, we must allow students to make mistakes..."
"While an appealing case can be made for assigning responsibility to any number of parties,..."
"I believe that it is the responsibility of the parent to educate their children about the dangers of drinking..."
"Why must we blame someone or something other than the culprit/perpetrator when death occurs due to excessive alcohol consumption?..."
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