Monday, October 28, 2013

Editorial: UConn President Susan Herbst deeply misguided in response to sexual assault claims

Posted by Frank Smith at 28.10.13

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If the administration is going to blame drinking for the rapes on campus being out of control, then Perhaps it is time to follow the examples set by ECSU and SCSU by banning all alcohol on campus. But I doubt Danno and these Democrats would do that because they count on the taxes from the truckloads of booze carted into the dorms each and every weekend, so as long as the Democrats are getting all that money to spend from the highest liquor taxes in the country, we can count on thousands of UConn students to continue stumbling around campus drunk out of their minds every weekend for the foreseeable future.

The following article quotes unnamed UConn administrators as predicting banning booze would never work, but doesn't it already work really well at 2 other state universities?

"January 26, 2003|By GRACE E. MERRITT; Courant Staff Writer

STORRS — Saying that drinking is out of control at the University of Connecticut, a state lawmaker has proposed a bill that would make the campus dry. But some experts question whether banning alcohol is really the answer.

State Sen. Edith G. Prague, D-Columbia, said the final straw came last November when a graduate student was struck and killed by a freshman charged with drunken driving.

``It just seems to be that things are so out of control, with students driving drunk on campus and killing other students,'' Prague said. ``Spring weekend is a nightmare up there. I think that the administration needs help in trying to control drinking on that campus.''

Prague, the legislature's leading advocate of stronger drunken-driving laws, said she is alarmed by reports that more college students are binge drinking.

``If you pass a law saying it is dry, the consequences ought to be that they are expelled if they are caught drinking,'' Prague said.

Prague proposed a similar bill 15 years ago and pointed out that Eastern Connecticut State University and Southern Connecticut State University have gone dry. The legislature's higher education and employment advancement committee plans to hold a hearing on Prague's bill in coming weeks.

UConn administrators said they doubt taking such a drastic approach will work at UConn because the problem is too complex and typically takes root long before students get to college.

``Part of what we're finding is that students are coming to college with drinking problems,'' said Vicky L. Triponey, vice chancellor for student affairs. ``They are starting in high school. And while making the campus dry sounds like it's a solution, I don't know that that's going to fix the problem. It ends up just driving it off campus and underground. It makes it more difficult to talk about it because, technically, we don't allow it on campus.''

October 28, 2013 at 10:39 AM
Anonymous said...

did Adam attend UConn by some chance?

October 28, 2013 at 5:25 PM

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