EDITOR: We would not be reporting the tragic death of a young person if we did not see this as representative of an ongoing dire threat to youths that the media and university officials are loath to discuss.
The common practice today is for young people ‘binge drink’ at colleges over weekends. This isn’t the fraternity parties of decades ago. This is a concerted effort to get drunk and escape from the real world, often accompanied by casual sex.
We are scaredof the danger to young people of outlandish consumption of alcoholic beverages.
The representation of binge drinking in the movie “The Social Network” was sadly accurate.
Not all students indulge. But they pay a price in socializing by refraining.
Binge drinking is a heck of a lot more dangerous for students than smoking a few joints to relax and converse. But students can be expelled for the latter.
HUFFINGTON POST: Philip Dhanens, a former high school prom king from Bakersfield, Calif., died last weekend after drinking at a Fresno State University fraternity pledge party, according to reports.
The 18-year-old Dhanens, a 6-foot-5, 325-pound freshman, was partying at the off-campus Theta Chi fraternity house Friday night into Saturday morning, then died Sunday morning at St. Agnes Hospital, CBS 47 reported (video above). The student’s mother told CBS she was alerted by the hospital at 4 a.m. on Saturday that her son had suffered severe brain damage.
Details are sketchy, but the Daily Mail wrote that Dhanens at some point was taken into the frat’s so-called “Sober Up Room” and was later found unconscious.. (more)
