Man falls out of window during Marathon party in Allston student warren

The offspring of snowplow, helicopter parents?
Deprived of making decisions on their own and therefore incapable of self control? Rebelling entitled brats?

What?

By Busy
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 10:29am

I dunno man, sometimes people just fall out of windows.

I was referring to the partiers ….

By Lee
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:37pm

…. not specifically to the injured kid.

But my post is ambiguous. Please excuse.

There's an option to edit a post

By Friartuck
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:53pm

It's pretty easy.

I am aware of that.

By Lee
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:58pm

I don’t think it’s fair to edit a post after someone has responded in a way that would render their post nonsensical.

I don't think you have

By Rwgfy
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 4:32pm

I don't think you have anything to worry about

Then just

By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 10:09pm

Cite the edit.

Helicopter parents?

By Scratchie
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 10:32am

Are you under the impression that it is a new phenomenon for college students to drink too much and make stupid decisions?

I wasn’t born yesterday.

By Lee
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 10:39am

And I experienced college here in Boston and elsewhere some years ago. It was never as ridiculous as now.
Even in the Reagan years.

Granted, I went to school in a far distant land (Waltham), but after graduation lived in various locations in Allston and Brighton, and, yes, it was just as bad then. The BU side of the neighborhood was a bit better, perhaps, because BU cops under John Silber patrolled the neighborhood with their BPD counterparts and brooked no nonsense, whereas BC's attitude seemed to be more that if it happened off campus (like a co-worker who lived near BC who came downstairs one morning to find a cinderblock tossed through his car window), it wasn't their problem.

I lived in Allston for a year in the ‘80s.

By Lee
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:03pm

I also tended bar back then. Granted, I never lived in a dorm and did not have any BC friends back then. Just two from BU, one who did drink too much. Cocaine was more the thing.

We had different experiences, apparently.

Fun fact

By fungwah
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:02pm

Young adults in the U.S. have become progressively less likely to use alcohol over the past two decades, with the percentages of 18- to 34-year-olds saying they ever drink, that they drank in the past week and that they sometimes drink more than they should all lower today.

That’s encouraging.

By Lee
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 2:58pm

Self reporting surveys, are, however, known to be unreliable.

Ask anyone who works in the alcohol industry

By fungwah
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 4:57pm

Beer/wine/hard liquor sales are all down in younger age brackets and sales of non-alcoholic options are booming.

(and I also don't really see why young people would be more likely to misidentify how much they drink in an anonymous survey than any other age bracket, so surely any errors with self-reporting should be fairly consistent across the whole pool of respondents, no?)

“(and I also don't really see

By Lee
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 6:43pm

“(and I also don't really see why young people would be more likely to misidentify how much they drink in an anonymous survey than any other age bracket, so surely any errors with self-reporting should be fairly consistent across the whole pool of respondents, no?)”

Of course, they wouldn’t be more likely to misidentify than any other cohort.
I don’t even see what your point is??

Maybe ...

By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 6:50pm

That's because you don't know what you are talking about in the first place?

Sigh

By fungwah
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 6:18am

The point is that while self-reported data can potentially be inaccurate, we can expect such inaccuracies to be pretty consistent over time and across age groups, so we can still derive useful information from looking at trends over time and from the comparison to other age groups, as the Gallup article I linked does.

“Sigh”!!??

By Lee
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 9:02am

Thank you for the explanation.

More so Anecdotes

By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 6:49pm

Before you start in on the limitations of this information, maybe you should provide your own data to back up your original "keeeeeeddsss todayyyyy" assertion?

Don’t take it personal.

By Lee
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 7:21pm

Relax.

I’m sure you’re the world’s greatest mom.

So you have no actual data to share

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 9:58am

Just wild extrapolation from a single data point.

Got it. Good to know.

Just wild extrapolation from

By Scratchie
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 12:18pm

Just wild extrapolation from a single data point.

This is the internet, after all.

Ah, the Reagan years

By Waquiot
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 10:34pm

I'm going to assume you've never heard of the Commonwealth's flagship university. Let's just say that crazy things happened at universities during the Reagan presidency and leave it at that.

And not to pile on, as most of us are thinking what you wrote, but it is premature to positively attribute anything to this incident just yet.

my bu years

By scollaysq
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 11:37am

Partygoers in the 70s were mainly pot smokers, not binge drinkers, and I don't recall anyone ever falling out a window. It was a different time

I went to college in the 80s

By Scratchie
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:41pm

I went to college in the 80s (not in Boston) and alcohol was overwhelmingly the drug of choice, many people were binge drinkers, and one young woman fell out of a dormitory window at a keg party and died.

Oh, my god!

By mplo
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 12:06am

Where was this, btw? Just wondering. Sorry about the woman who fell out of a window and died as a result of drinking too much.

My experience as well.

By Lee
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 1:04pm

I recall we all gave alcohol a try once we could get away with it. But the attitude among the people I generally socialized with was that alcohol was too conventional. An out of style fifties trend. In other words getting drunk was what our boring parents did to become even more boring. Pot and other illegal stuff was cool.

Your anecdota does not equal data

By HenryAlan 2.0
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 4:02pm

You and the others moralizing about how back in the day this sort of thing didn't happen are speaking only to your own personal experiences. I went to BU in the late 80s/early 90s, and binge drinking was a major element of socializing. If anything, it happens far less now than it did back then. And not only was my experience quite different than apparently yours, but I even knew somebody who fell out a window (though she was smoking pot). Thankfully she survived, but required a very long recovery and a big dose of physical therapy.

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