I'm not going to pretend like all of the drinking is responsible, but if our culture didn't make it such a taboo for young people I imagine the most extreme stuff would go away. No one is butt chugging in Canada or Europe or anywhere else on Earth for that matter.
I agree on the Europe thing. They seem fine and they are all allowed to drink around the age of 16. I don't think anyone is butt chugging here though either. The one incident was isolated to that one house. I had never even heard of something like that before last year. Also not that it matters now because public opinion is forever set in stone, but I'm not convinced that the butt chugg was 100 % true based on people I trust with knowledge on the situation. That police report may have contained errors and potentially was erroneously put out before all the facts surfaced. A lot of interesting and humorous perspectives on what really went down still loom on campus.
Not meaning to hijack this thread, but yea. It would be cool if we could openly drink at baseball games and attract thousands of students to attend like they do at Ole Miss, MSU and LSU. Also kinda nervous about the MTSU game this week. They've seemed to have our number the past couple seasons and they are going to throw the kitchen sink at us.
Teenagers do butt chugging and similar things across the country in small numbers. It isn't common, but it is a thing.
Sounds like a good way to run off a lot of students. Tennessee Tech didn't give a shit about it. I don't see the point in going off the deep end over one dumbass being stupid.
The only way it isn't true is if the police were straight up lying and made that up on the spot at the hospital... And that's without having even investigated the house. IIRC, his cousin admitted to the police and staff at the hospital that's what they had been doing and why he was in the current state. Just don't see how a police officer could ever make up a story that bizarre just to embarrass a kid or a fraternity - not only that - willingly connecting the cousin to that statement so that he goes and lawyers up to try and save face claiming he never said such a thing.
Fraternity houses are campus property, I think. The only place they need permission to search are the actual dorm rooms or whatever.
And they don't need permission to walk through your dorm. They just can't go through your personal stuff without cause though.
Not so sure about that. If you close and lock the door what the hell are they supposed to do? Kick it in?
Well isn't that how its supposed to work? With dorms and most of these fraternity houses being on UT property?
