Why is it such a big deal if I drink
while in school? I’m paying for my education, I should be able to choose how I
want to go about it. Yes, the legal drinking age is 21, but whitewater takes
this to an extreme. They will bust any party, and stop anybody on the streets
if they think they might be drinking. Isn’t it innocent until proven guilty? If
I am walking the streets and not causing any problems, why should police
question me? This is college, everyone is going to drink! Underage drinking should
be enforced, but Whitewater takes it to a whole new level. Just about every
other college in Wisconsin is super lenient regarding teenage drinking. One
night in the dorms, my brother was drinking. They were being respectful and
kept the noise to a minimum. The dorms were scarce because just about everyone
had left for the weekend. The RA’s were knocking randomly on the doors to try
and bust underage drinkers. They knocked on my brother’s dorm, and walked
inside without permission to try and find any evidence of drinking. They found
an opened beer to the side of the room, and threatened to call the cops. He
wrote down everyone’s names, and now my brother is on probation for a year and
had to take a 3-hour online class, which cost $35. If he gets caught again he
could get kicked out of the dorms, and if he reaches 3-4 times he will be
expelled from every UW school for a year. This seems pretty severe, because
they were just minding their own business. There is no reason RA’s and cops
have to be such pricks and ruin college life for young adults. UWW cops suck
and only want money from underagers.
I received a marijuana possession ticket last year at UWW. I was watching a movie in my dorm room alone, minding my own business, when the police knocked on my door. They said they "knew" I had smoked in my room (I had not) and that they had the right to search through my things. After locating my lock-box, I was informed that if I did not open it for them, they would confiscate it and wait until they got a warrant to open it. While they were telling me this, they were also telling me that if I refused I would face harsher consequences. Looking back I'm pretty sure that they lied to me about taking my box without a warrant. I think that the campus police should try to stop real crimes, not harass students who are trying to stay out of trouble
ReplyDeleteUm, yes! I agree. And while drinking is much more dangerous in my opinion than smoking marijuana, I feel like unless there is a real disturbance or some detection of actual harm being done, the police and others responsible for "busting" underage drinkers and people smoking pot should use their time to actually help people in trouble, not waste time and money ticketing and hassling ADULTS who are clearly minding their own business. It's been an old question - why is it that at 18 I can buy a house, have a credit card, take out a loan, sacrafice my life for my country, and own and fire dangerous weapons, but I cannot drink alcohol if I choose to? And I cannot harmlessly smoke some pot? The rules are backwards and completely asinine, not to mention super unfair. I don't understand how law enforcement people can honestly believe in the idiotic laws they enforce. Cops will tell you they think smoking marijuana is dangerous and that people shouldn't do it. Talk about brainwashed.
DeleteBTW there is an entire task force out there for Whitewater specifically designed to bust college kids who sell and smoke marijuana. Really? I get that people need jobs in this state but come on, there's a lot more trouble going on that could be getting attention. And those drug task force people who think they are serving justice by going after marijuana smokers and dealers - brainwashed idiots. Every single one of them.
DeleteNo one cares if you drink excessively as long as you do not disturb the peace and corrupt high school kids but this is not what happens. Some of you, excluding present company, pose a danger to yourselves and to others. Last year the police busted a house party and gave 150 tickets out for underage drinking. There were over a hundred people crushed into this tiny house drinking, vomiting, smoking dope, smoking met, and passed out in the backyard, disturbing neighbors trying to sleep. In addition, drunk students in the residence hall vomit all over the furniture, and are likely to become victims of sexual assault. In addition, selling of drugs, including weed, is against law. By the way, some of you drunks even get behind the wheel.
ReplyDeleteSo then, why is it that when someone enters a dorm (police or some other kind of authority) and sees an empty beer can and a couple of kids half-buzzed that they MUST report them and give them a ticket and make them take a class? Why not just let the kids go, if there's no real harm being done? And the same goes for smoking pot - if someone's minding their own business watching a movie and they happen to have some pot in a box somewhere in their room, does it make any sense for that person to get in trouble? Absolutely not. And just becuase something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong.
DeleteAnonymous August 21, 2012 9:29 AM
DeleteSo you are sitting around smoking weed watching Harry Potter but dude, smoking weed in the residence halls is a crime. I smoked weed in my room and my mom smelled the foul odor as soon as she pulled into the garage. What you need to understand is that when you move into any residence hall they can enter your room at will if they suspect that ilegal activity is taking place. If you have to smoke weed then go outside. They are trying to keep you from becoming a Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad.
The girl living next door to me had a 12 pound designer dog in her apartment. It was a such a cute little dog and she was nice and friendly but I still did my civic duty and reported her to our landlord. I saw her through my window crying because she had to move. Was it wrong for her to have a dog? No, but it was illegal in our apartment complex. The law is the law, and ignorance of it is no excuse. She signed a contract that stated no pets allowed. You also signed a contract saying that no drinking and smoking dope or met as well as shooting up would not be permitted in the residence halls period, no exceptions. Now its your body, and you can do whatever you want with it, take a flying leap off a bridge like the famous director Tom Scott did last week, but as long as you live in the student residence hall, you must respect the law or and if you don't then move.
ReplyDeleteWhen Romney gets in the White House he will call of the dogs and we can do whatever we want to do in our rooms.
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