Abstract:
According to the 2007 Alcohol and Other Drug Use Survey of UW-Whitewater students, 26 percent have driven while under the influence of alcohol within the last year...
No one will argue that driving under the influence is acceptable. What I have a problem with is that it seems some college students attending colleges in smaller towns are disproportionally targeted for drunk driving or under age drinking. In the case of the UW Whitewater entertainment venues are extremely limited. Students want to have a drink and hang out with their peers, but to do so, they have to leave campus. The next think you know, they get arrested for under age drinking or a DUI. Police officers will yell from their squad cars for students to walk over to them. They are asked if they've been drinking. Not knowing their rights, their answer incriminates them and Bingo, their busted. Or if pulled over while driving home they receive a DUI.
I have a friend whose son attends Williams College; a pricey private college. Being a private college the school has the rights to, and often allows their students to party-- on campus. It's understood or expected that the students will not leave campus, nor will the city police enter the campus grounds--it's a private school on private grounds. So these students, regardless of their age, are more or less protected from being arrested. They drink just as much as students attending a small, rural Wisconsin public college, but are afforded a venue and, if you will, special rights or protection from having their names tarnished.
Is this fair? Is it right? Are some of us, due to our socioeconomic status, simply more likely to be punished for acts from which others seem to be protected?
driving after the drink is very dangerous for ours.specially youth attract for this habbit.given your story is helpful to drunk drivers
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harris
california dui
Spring Break
Brenda Sandberg
posted 5/18/08 @ 9:38 PM CST
No one will argue that driving under the influence is acceptable. What I have a problem with is that it seems some college students attending colleges in smaller towns are disproportionally targeted for drunk driving or under age drinking. In the case of the UW Whitewater entertainment venues are extremely limited. Students want to have a drink and hang out with their peers, but to do so, they have to leave campus. The next think you know, they get arrested for under age drinking or a DUI. Police officers will yell from their squad cars for students to walk over to them. They are asked if they've been drinking. Not knowing their rights, their answer incriminates them and Bingo, their busted. Or if pulled over while driving home they receive a DUI.
I have a friend whose son attends Williams College; a pricey private college. Being a private college the school has the rights to, and often allows their students to party-- on campus. It's understood or expected that the students will not leave campus, nor will the city police enter the campus grounds--it's a private school on private grounds. So these students, regardless of their age, are more or less protected from being arrested. They drink just as much as students attending a small, rural Wisconsin public college, but are afforded a venue and, if you will, special rights or protection from having their names tarnished.
Is this fair? Is it right? Are some of us, due to our socioeconomic status, simply more likely to be punished for acts from which others seem to be protected?