Slate: 'College Women: Stop Getting Drunk'

My understanding of the story is that it was late at night -- possibly after bar time -- not in broad daylight.

 

Well that makes it better...... :

 

There are drinking games...and then there is THIS:

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I'm 31 and I somehow missed beer pong, in college at least, and I was in a frat. I've actually spent time wondering about how that was possible. I think it became a thing on campus just in time for me to totally miss it. We frequently played drinking games, but beer pong definitely wasn't a thing when I lived in the house. Then I moved out for my last year and people would occasionally mention beer pong but we were a bit in our own world and doing the majority of our drinking at the bars a few blocks away, so we didn't come across it. I graduated before most of my friends, so they all played it extensively, but after I left. They can't believe I never played in college. I didn't play for the first time until I was 25 or so.

 

Yeah, beer pong wasn't a thing where I was.
I think it was just coming into its own as a "under 21" game when I graduated (23/24) and I remember flip cup was just starting to get big as a Wednesday night game when I was working at a bar in the late 90s/early 00s.
The game of choice for house parties where I hung out was snooker. Best of 5 and if you were swept you had to streak from the basement to outside and all around the house. Then you signed your name to the rafter before you could dress again. For the most part it was a lot of wiener, but a few brave (and hot) girls played, and lost, as well.
I think betting on shots was common as well.
I did have a beer pong table in my basement at one point. That was a great Thanksgiving, 2008.

 

The prosecutor doesn't plan to file charges.

http://www.athensohiotoday.com/news/no-charges-filed-in-alleged-court-street-sexual-assault/article_fd7636ab-2ebd-56a4-9f44-0f5cd072d0ec.html

 

Not a drinker, never have been, but every once in a while I'd get a 2-liter of Coke or Dr Pepper and join in with my college friends for their drinking games. A popular one was called "asshole," a card game where one person had to wear some stupid hat and take a drink every time something happened, and there was a person in charge who could make up rules. A good one was making the chatty drunk take one drink for every word he said.

Even though I wasn't drinking, it wasn't all fun and games for me. I once went through the entire 2-liter of Dr Pepper in about two hours. It made my pancreas hurt and I took one of the biggest shits of my life afterward. It was like having a Dr Pepper enema. I think I ended up feeling worse than the people who got hammered.

 

Salon.com's Katie McDonough is so mad at Emily Yoffe:

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/16/blaming_assault_on_womens_drinking_is_tired_dangerous_rape_apology/

"(W)hat’s not being said or taught, and what Yoffe only mentions in the final paragraph of a piece spent blaming women and girls for drinking themselves into victimhood, is what men and boys can do to stop rape. First and foremost, they can not rape."