Listen. I get it, I am a student as well, living in the South end. University can be fun! Yes you’re of age now, oh my goodness you can go to the liquor store and get intoxicated in bars. Have a little respect for your fellow students, grow up a little. So to all the Bros, the screaming chicks and of course the music blarers. You know who you are. Chill. —The South End Insomniac
This article appears in Sep 1-7, 2011.
…It’s Frosh Week. Chill the fuck out, dude.
Invest in a loud fan! I have one and I actually had to turn it off last night because I was cold, but then all I could hear was Bro 1 and Bro 2 and Dumb Girl 1 and 2 screaming generic things they thought were hilarious. ANYWAY I got a blanket and turned the fan back on :).
Then there are the ones who just go wayyyyyy overboard. First time away from home + copious quantities of libations + Frosh week dorm party multiplied by newly attained legal drinking age minus moderation = this poor schmuck:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/…
Let’s hope he pulls through.
feeecckin hell avast. Parents, this is why you teach your kid how to drink and don’t keep them on too short of a leash. The day they are out of your sight they are likely to go overboard.
As for the OP, it’s frosh week, and it’s the South End. There ARE other places to live in HRM.
yeah i heard about that avast, not surprising but very sad. you’re right thomas, long leash=happy, independent thinker
SO glad I’m outta south end.
I can deal with shooty McStabberson but not drunken, rowdy idiots en masse every night of the week.
and dude.. if I’m drinkin a 40… I’m mixing at least 1 to 1.
that was just ridiculous… shooting nearly 40 back in an evening.
I know at least one guy who agrees with me…
mmmmmm cheeseburger…..
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1Ujh5PNXmfY/S36q…
It’s true zZz. I’ll take my chances on the darkside streets. I can’t stand drunk obnoxious groups of students.
And I don’t think there are too many 19 year olds out there that should be drinking 40 ounces of liquor in one night. Christ, I wouldn’t even attempt that, even though I could probably handle it.
well it may have been weaker like disaronno or schnapps liquors that are more flavor and less burn.
goldschlager or rum/tequila/vodka can get dangerous.
having known 2 people who’ve had pumped stomachs in my days
(actually smart, deans list people too, I try not to surround myself with dumbasses)
at Acadia, I can say it isn’t that hard to get outta hand.
Yeah, that’s the thing, no one was around to babysit this kid. Nor should they have been, I mean, he’s an adult, technically. I dunno part of me is glad I got that shit outta my system at a young age but part of me wishes it was still new/fun to me. Fuck it, at least I’m not wasting mommy and daddy’s money to drink myself damn near to death. I can do that all by myself.
I say get a hydrant wrench and about 100ft of hose and have some fun.
ah,uni studs. the scourge of human kind. get sebastian to pay them a visit, he’ll keep them quiet for awhile.
Acadia is fucking insane. I was there visiting a friend and they had filled a kiddie pool with any and all liquor they could find, then poured in a bunch of sugar and red kool-aid mix. It was called Red Death, and the next day the campus looked like the scene of a mass murder, blood red vomit everywheres.
And one kid who might or might not make it. For supposedly intellegent people, some of them are stunned cunts.
I’m not going to teach my son how to be a wild drinker, but once he is older than 15 or 16 he will be allowed to have beer or wine with the me at family events where no one is drinking and behaving like fools. its important to teach him how to drink and behave civilized. I think that will go a long ways toward giving him a healthier outlook when he goes out with his friends.
Chipman. Figures. What’s ironic about this is that I was told just yesterday that the university has gone to lengths to lessen the ‘party atmosphere,’ and it’s pretty much unrecognizable from when I was there (according to a friend of mine who lives in wolfville and works at the university).
I had a HUGE scare my last year at acadia at an end of year party. I got more plastered than I ever had in my time there (which, uh, wasn’t frequent, but when I drank, holy FUCK), and ended up in the hospital the next day. The ER team that treated me thought I was going into DKA and rushed me right in. Turned out I only had a lung infection, but that scared me straight and I grew the fuck up and started drinking responsibly after that.
And I, like zed, hung out with the smarties (most of whom were honours program students), and there were some pretty insanely drunken times (from what I witnessed — nothing like being cat called to “come up and blow them” by a bunch of drunk assholes while walking across campus at 4pm).
The year before I got there a rez party ended with smashed windows and stereo equipment being thrown off 10th floor windows and doors being ripped off hinges.
And then there was that guy on the pub crawl who got off the bus just past mount uniacke to piss and got hit and killed by a car.
Academically, you can’t beat Acadia, but I’d probably think twice before sending my own kids there.
well it’s in the middle of nowhere. there really is not a lot to do there.
it takes over a half hour bus ride just to catch a movie….
I remember the dude who got creamed. That was a solemn reminder for a long while across campus and many a crawl were canceled afterward.
also, I heard through the grapevine that chipman is co-ed these days,
though I know no woman who would want to live in that hole…
I guess it hasn’t calmed that place down a whole hell of a lot either.
I also completely believe the Red Death story as well….
wouldn’t be at all surprised if it were those rowdy engineer folk.
Chipman went co-ed in 2004/2005 and lost its annual endowment from the Chipman family (they had stated that if it ever went co-ed, funding would stop).
The pub crawl rules were changed after the creaming incident — at least one sober person has to be on the bus besides the driver.
And I heard some stories about those comp sci losers, too, oh yes I have. Nothing about the math geeks though… there were what? Like two of you?
Ack, I was horribly young and immature when I went there. Serious student, but the kind of activities that I enjoyed back then just don’t appeal to me anymore. When I was at laval living with second/third years, they couldn’t understand why I’d much prefer to stay in and have a few drinks with some friends or *gasp* go to bed at a reasonable hour on a school night, than get plastered and club hop four nights a week. I just can’t do that shit anymore — I’m too old for it.
Call the cops. If they are not your friends, don’t give a fuck about them.
I’ve partied at St. FX a few times and Bishops. You think Acadia is crazier? X homecoming is always a shit show. Acadia’s the most expensive school in Canada isn’t it? Or Eastern Canada?
I’ve just come to learn that the poor kid died yesterday. What a waste. This was SUPPOSED to have been the start of his adult life. Instead, it’s the end. Tragic. My sympathies to his family and friends.
My heart aches for his parents, because when I was whooping it up in uni, I never once spared a thought for mine or how they would feel if I did something irreversibly dumb. So sad.
it’s quite sad… poor youngin’
I can’t even imagine the crack-down the rest of the students are going to endure.
You can bet your ass there’s going to be a plethora of new rules AND a zero tolerance policy.
Most expensive in Canada, Tommy. I was paying close to 8k when all was said and done in tuition my last year back in 2004.
Honestly, I’m not overly shocked something like this happened at Acadia. It’s a shit show every weekend there, but the university is great at covering that up. It’s always been my biggest beef with that place. Women are raped on campus at SMU or DAL or MSVU and the university sends out campus-wide warnings, but when that happens at Acadia you hear NOTHING. Only hersay and rumors about what ‘apparently’ happened.
Acadia might be fantastic when it comes to academics, but in the end, the university cares more about its reputation. They’d much rather sweet this crap under the rug.
It’s all fine for those of us who are a little older to say “what was this kid thinking?” or “he should’ve been drinking responsibly!”, but when you’re 19 and away from home from the first time, getting piss drunk seems like a GRAND idea. And since you’re a relatively inexperienced drinker, you haven’t fully learned your limits. I know it took me a few years to learn mine.
This is such a shame. What a waste of a life by some bright young kid who had the world by the balls. I feel so awful for his parents and the grief/guilt they must be experiencing.
Too true PK. I’m not claiming to have had a “checkered past” or a “dark side” (fucking spare me) but I managed to dodge some shit through pure dumb luck. It certainly wasn’t through intelligence, or planning or forethought…just pure dumb luck.
Kids, when old farts tell you “Learn from the mistakes of others because you won’t live long enough to make all of your own” we aren’t just indulging in wild hyperbole.
I’ve read about 10 articles about the boy’s death. The only question raised was, ‘should universities do more to control on campus drinking’?
Witnesses saw him drink 40oz’s, in a fucking game. As far as I’m concerned, anybody that egged him on should be held accountable in part for his death.
Maybe if a few people got tagged with criminal negligence causing death/manslaughter, the rest might think twice before trying to get the next kid ‘dead drunk’.
The only reason there’s going to be a crack down, zed, is because you can’t hide a death and you can’t sweep it under the rug.
These tragedies make me so angry. Not at anyone specifically, but moreso because not only one life was ruined, the lives of his family has been ruined too. It’s just an unimaginable loss.
Hugo — as someone who’s witnessed these games, it’s more than likely the other participants were plastered too and pounding back the liquor like he was and had no comprehension of what was going on.
They said he was giong from floor to floor, so I’m guessing each new party he joined didn’t really grasp the full extent of how intoxicated he was and how much he had drank. Maybe his 40 was from the night before, they thought? Lots of people buy 40s and spread it out over a few nights of drinking. MY question is: where were the RAs while this was going on? They found him AFTER he was in distress… why did it take them so long? I’ve been to parties in rez at acadia where the music was blasting, everyone was PISS drunk, and not an RA in sight!
I think if I was Ray Ivany right now, I’d be using this as a great PR opportunity to promote safe drinking on campus and to boost Acadia’s image by implementing a crack down. I’d also fire Chipman’s RAs, implement a new training program and use this an example for all new RAs.
Unfortunately, Acadia’s PR department (I don’t single anyone out, heh), isn’t worth a pinch of shit and probably won’t think of this.
And in all honesty, you’d never be able to fully stop on campus drinking. It’s an impossibility unless you are going to subject everyone that sets foot on the campus, (students, profs, staff, visitors), to a stringent search,seizure and enforcement program. And you think tuitions are pricey NOW.
I personally don’t see how the university can be held accountable for this. At some point, the individual, who is now considered an adult in the eyes of our society, for all intents and purposes, has to assume responsibility for their own actions. This tragedy could easily have happened at any other party, virtually anywhere else in the world. In this instance, I believe his age, lack of experience and not knowing his limits were the real cause. But that doesn’t mean that every 19 year old that leaves home for the first time to go to uni is going to act in the same manner. I’ve heard of people in between the ages of 30 and 90 who have died from alcohol poisoning because they pushed their limits. So, you can’t even use that as a factor in dealing with this type of incident. The uni could ban on-campus drinking but, I don’t think they could fully stop it. Plus, if they want to drink, they’ll just go do it somewhere else. It doesn’t really solve the problem.
I think universities should be accountable if it takes place on campus because it *is* taking place on their property and people are generally responsible for that shit if they’ve given permission for the individual to be on said property. If you host a party and someone leaves drunk, drives and kills someone — wouldn’t you be held responsible to some degree?
I don’t think banning drinking on campus is the answer because it’ll still keep going on and it’ll just cause more problems with dealing with infractions, but I think more RAs and more intense training might help the situation.
Also, fun fact: when I did campus tours at acadia, during our training we were told not to deny the issue of drinking on campus if parents asked, but to not make SUCH a big deal about it. Acknowledge that it happens and move on.
I agree with you to a point, Kitty. The problem is that this wasn’t a university hosted party. It was neither organized nor promoted by the university. About the only thing they COULD be taken to task over would be, as you said, the apparent lack of RA’s or campus policing. But, here again, where do we draw that line? Where do we say, “Ok, 19 y/o student. You are now responsible for your own actions from here on in. Think before you act” ? We tell these young men/women they are old enough to operate a motor vehicle, old enough to vote for their government and old enough to legally buy tobacco and alcohol. So, it’s sort of implied that by doing this, they are responsible for their conduct and knowing their limits. I don’t know. I’m not saying that the university shouldn’t take a good hard look at itself and it’s policies/procedures. Absolutely they should. They have to look at all the factors in this, and past incidents involving alcohol on campus and devise some measure to try and prevent something like this from happening again. I just don’t know what more they could do.