UW-Madison vs. U of Texas at Austin

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[Post New]04/23/2016 23:33
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Anonymous
Madison is a great town. It is cold, though. I didn't mind that and kinda miss it here. I definitely miss skating on ponds.
[Post New]04/23/2016 23:39
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Anonymous
Texas has some crazy gun laws and I'd be nervous if my kid was there. Austin is a fun ptown, though.
[Post New]04/24/2016 01:56
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Austin
[Post New]04/24/2016 07:54
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Anonymous
Texas forever.
[Post New]04/24/2016 08:53
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Anonymous
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/texas-lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-guns-on-campus.html?referer=

This would clinch it for me. Guns have no place on campuses.
[Post New]04/24/2016 09:01
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Anonymous
Texas.
[Post New]04/24/2016 13:49
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/texas-lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-guns-on-campus.html?referer=

This would clinch it for me. Guns have no place on campuses.

Agreed. Colleges need to be gun free zones. That way shootings will never happen. See Virginia Tech and Umpqua Community College.
[Post New]04/25/2016 16:48
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/texas-lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-guns-on-campus.html?referer=

This would clinch it for me. Guns have no place on campuses.

Agreed. Colleges need to be gun free zones. That way shootings will never happen. See Virginia Tech and Umpqua Community College.


If you could please provide me with some data on how many shootings are prevented by ordinary people carrying guns that would be great. Not sponsored by the NRA of course.
[Post New]04/25/2016 17:02
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/texas-lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-guns-on-campus.html?referer=

This would clinch it for me. Guns have no place on campuses.

Agreed. Colleges need to be gun free zones. That way shootings will never happen. See Virginia Tech and Umpqua Community College.


If you could please provide me with some data on how many shootings are prevented by ordinary people carrying guns that would be great. Not sponsored by the NRA of course.

I never said they were...? Reading is important.

Fact is all major school shootings happened at schools where guns are not allowed. So sure, guns have no place on campuses, but somehow...they found their way onto campuses across the country. If you are really concerned about school shootings, perhaps online schooling would be the best fit for your child.
[Post New]04/25/2016 17:05
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Anonymous wrote:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/texas-lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-guns-on-campus.html?referer=

This would clinch it for me. Guns have no place on campuses.


Did you even read this article?
"Texas will be one of eight states to allow the carrying of concealed weapons on public college campuses, joining Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Nineteen others ban concealed weapons on campus, including California, Florida and New York, and 23 others, including Alabama and Arizona, leave the decision to the colleges or state board of regents."

If guns are a concern for OP, neither Texas nor Wisconsin are going to work...
[Post New]04/25/2016 17:33
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Anonymous
Austin
[Post New]04/25/2016 17:59
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If I were to make uneducated guesses, I would say that UW-Madison probably has more of a school-wide binge drinking problem than UT-Austin, where it is more likely confined to the greek system. But then again, at UT there will be more pressure to join the greek system because it is more central to social events. I would also probably guess that outside of binge drinking in the greek system, the policing is likely to be more aggressive at UT-Austin so if your kid every did decide party a little bit it would be more likely they would ticketed and leave college with an infraction/record (see e.g. Jenna Bush). While at Wisconsin, I would assume that if you drink in the dorms and get caught, you are more likely to get written up and kicked out after a couple warnings than having the cops called on you. So Madison is probably a safer and more permissive risk-taking environment, whereas in Austin you only get those priviledges through the greek system.


Wisconsin is a beer state. Miller and a ton of smaller and micro breweries. If they could have avoided the driking age change in the 1980's they would have. I don't think they are allowed to consume alcohol in the dorms, but there are plenty of "house" parties (pay 5 dollars and get a red plastic cup) and frat parties. The bars card because its the law, but the culture of the area around campus is very pro-student.

And the cold is mostly January-February, but there is usually only one-two weeks of school in January anyhow.


PP here, that was basically my thinking. Drinking is a big part of the culture there and I would assume that a school like UW-Madison has a much "safer" campus environment. Meaning that say you are walking through campus with a beer late a night and campus police spot you, they will probably ask you for your student ID, take your beer away and tell you to go home. At Texas, I would assume that the campus police are probably much more aggressive about "policing", which could mean that even stupid pranks could land a student with an infraction for breaking and entering/vandalism or something like that.

College kids like to party and do stupid things. I wouldn't want to send my kid to a school where they had to be greek if they wanted to party or where if they did something dumb but ultimately harmless, it would result in them getting an infraction or arrested. I honestly don't know a lot about these schools, but I would venture to guess the student environment at Texas is probably less permissive.
[Post New]04/25/2016 20:39
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/texas-lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-guns-on-campus.html?referer=

This would clinch it for me. Guns have no place on campuses.


Did you even read this article?
"Texas will be one of eight states to allow the carrying of concealed weapons on public college campuses, joining Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Nineteen others ban concealed weapons on campus, including California, Florida and New York, and 23 others, including Alabama and Arizona, leave the decision to the colleges or state board of regents."

If guns are a concern for OP, neither Texas nor Wisconsin are going to work...


Yes I did and I thought it was odd so I did some research.

https://www.wisconsin.edu/general-counsel/legal-topics/concealed-carry/
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