UVA - drinking culture?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure your kid takes classes that meet on Fridays. That cuts out Thursday binge drinking. The school should not allow so much blackout drinking at football games. Also, girls need to travel in groups of at least 4. UVA really does have some hot spots like football games and fraternities that you should only attend with a group of like minded friends. The school does nothing to reign it in.

Sad and frightening.

Despite the fact that they have had more than one student murdered under these circumstances. And God knows how many raped.

College sexual assault statistics are massively overinflated. They conflate sexual touching on a dancefloor with rape, absurd.

How to you factor into your conclusion the fact that most rapes go unreported?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both my nephews came home from UVA with guts.

What?

Is this a joke or are you some kind of macho neanderthal?

I would prefer that they came home with an education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make sure your kid takes classes that meet on Fridays. That cuts out Thursday binge drinking. The school should not allow so much blackout drinking at football games. Also, girls need to travel in groups of at least 4. UVA really does have some hot spots like football games and fraternities that you should only attend with a group of like minded friends. The school does nothing to reign it in.

I can speak to drinking at football games. I am a parent of two DCS who have been or are in the UVA marching band and have been attending virtually every home football game for the past 6 years. I sit in the student section because that is closest to the band and the tickets cost less First of all, until this past year hardly any students even attended the football games, and those who did typically arrived late and left early. It was quite disheartening actually to see so much empty space where students would be sitting had they attended and I felt sorry for the players, the band and the cheerleaders. No outside drinks are allowed in and for the past couple years the only bags allowed inside the stadium are clear plastic bags. I am not saying students wouldn't figure out a way to smuggle in smaller bottles of alcohol - just saying the school doesn't make it easy. Most of the games are in the afternoon - again, not saying students don't drink in daylight but just that it is easier to see what's going on. I have been sitting next to and in the midst of these students for most games for years and there simply is not a lot of "blackout drinking at football games" like the PP claims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure your kid takes classes that meet on Fridays. That cuts out Thursday binge drinking. The school should not allow so much blackout drinking at football games. Also, girls need to travel in groups of at least 4. UVA really does have some hot spots like football games and fraternities that you should only attend with a group of like minded friends. The school does nothing to reign it in.

Sad and frightening.

Despite the fact that they have had more than one student murdered under these circumstances. And God knows how many raped.

College sexual assault statistics are massively overinflated. They conflate sexual touching on a dancefloor with rape, absurd.

How to you factor into your conclusion the fact that most rapes go unreported?

They don't.

[Anonymous]

It all depends on your kids' peer group. You really can't control for that when they go to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure your kid takes classes that meet on Fridays. That cuts out Thursday binge drinking. The school should not allow so much blackout drinking at football games. Also, girls need to travel in groups of at least 4. UVA really does have some hot spots like football games and fraternities that you should only attend with a group of like minded friends. The school does nothing to reign it in.

I can speak to drinking at football games. I am a parent of two DCS who have been or are in the UVA marching band and have been attending virtually every home football game for the past 6 years. I sit in the student section because that is closest to the band and the tickets cost less First of all, until this past year hardly any students even attended the football games, and those who did typically arrived late and left early. It was quite disheartening actually to see so much empty space where students would be sitting had they attended and I felt sorry for the players, the band and the cheerleaders. No outside drinks are allowed in and for the past couple years the only bags allowed inside the stadium are clear plastic bags. I am not saying students wouldn't figure out a way to smuggle in smaller bottles of alcohol - just saying the school doesn't make it easy. Most of the games are in the afternoon - again, not saying students don't drink in daylight but just that it is easier to see what's going on. I have been sitting next to and in the midst of these students for most games for years and there simply is not a lot of "blackout drinking at football games" like the PP claims.

+1. I have a student at UVA. There is no blackout drinking at football games. You can go all four years and never drink. You can also CHOOSE to go Greek and spend time on Greek row, which is off campus. This is about student maturity and CHOICE. If your child is going to be immature, irresponsible and drink madly, they are going to do it everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make sure your kid takes classes that meet on Fridays. That cuts out Thursday binge drinking. The school should not allow so much blackout drinking at football games. Also, girls need to travel in groups of at least 4. UVA really does have some hot spots like football games and fraternities that you should only attend with a group of like minded friends. The school does nothing to reign it in.

I can speak to drinking at football games. I am a parent of two DCS who have been or are in the UVA marching band and have been attending virtually every home football game for the past 6 years. I sit in the student section because that is closest to the band and the tickets cost less First of all, until this past year hardly any students even attended the football games, and those who did typically arrived late and left early. It was quite disheartening actually to see so much empty space where students would be sitting had they attended and I felt sorry for the players, the band and the cheerleaders. No outside drinks are allowed in and for the past couple years the only bags allowed inside the stadium are clear plastic bags. I am not saying students wouldn't figure out a way to smuggle in smaller bottles of alcohol - just saying the school doesn't make it easy. Most of the games are in the afternoon - again, not saying students don't drink in daylight but just that it is easier to see what's going on. I have been sitting next to and in the midst of these students for most games for years and there simply is not a lot of "blackout drinking at football games" like the PP claims.

This is an exaggeration. The student section was a little thinner towards to the end of London's career (2009-2015), but crowds have been fine under Bronco.

Except for the Liberty game. Dumb game and bad weather will do that.

[Anonymous]

We stayed in Charlottesville not long ago, at a hotel where many families of UVA students stay (and sports teams, it seems). We saw a lot of lunchtime / afternoon drinking on Thursdays in town - college age kids - and most of the girls were wearing micro-shorts and revealing tops. It was like hookersville not Charlottesville.

We also saw a very, very different set of college students walking into classes on the Friday morning, early. Not hungover, not wearing "last night's" clothes. Not dressed like hoes.

So clearly two tribes exist its just about which one you get into.

[Anonymous]

WHAT? You mean there's variety in an undergraduate population of 17,000?!?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every single school has a drinking culture. Anyone who thinks otherwise lives under a rock.

If your son doesn't want to partake there is plenty to get involved with, tell him not to worry about that.

Have him look up clubs he might want to get involved with.

If you want to avoid the drinking culture, first step is avoid frats and sororities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every single school has a drinking culture. Anyone who thinks otherwise lives under a rock.

If your son doesn't want to partake there is plenty to get involved with, tell him not to worry about that.

Have him look up clubs he might want to get involved with.

If you want to avoid the drinking culture, first step is avoid frats and sororities

Bingo. There is a drinking culture no matter what college/university you attend. Avoiding schools with a Greek scene will drastically cut down on the partying. But that doesn't mean there is NO drinking. There will always be some, no matter where you go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We stayed in Charlottesville not long ago, at a hotel where many families of UVA students stay (and sports teams, it seems). We saw a lot of lunchtime / afternoon drinking on Thursdays in town - college age kids - and most of the girls were wearing micro-shorts and revealing tops. It was like hookersville not Charlottesville.

We also saw a very, very different set of college students walking into classes on the Friday morning, early. Not hungover, not wearing "last night's" clothes. Not dressed like hoes.

So clearly two tribes exist its just about which one you get into.

I have news for you. Those were probably the same kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We stayed in Charlottesville not long ago, at a hotel where many families of UVA students stay (and sports teams, it seems). We saw a lot of lunchtime / afternoon drinking on Thursdays in town - college age kids - and most of the girls were wearing micro-shorts and revealing tops. It was like hookersville not Charlottesville.

We also saw a very, very different set of college students walking into classes on the Friday morning, early. Not hungover, not wearing "last night's" clothes. Not dressed like hoes.

So clearly two tribes exist its just about which one you get into.

I have news for you. Those were probably the same kids.

True!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We stayed in Charlottesville not long ago, at a hotel where many families of UVA students stay (and sports teams, it seems). We saw a lot of lunchtime / afternoon drinking on Thursdays in town - college age kids - and most of the girls were wearing micro-shorts and revealing tops. It was like hookersville not Charlottesville.

We also saw a very, very different set of college students walking into classes on the Friday morning, early. Not hungover, not wearing "last night's" clothes. Not dressed like hoes.

So clearly two tribes exist its just about which one you get into.

I have news for you. Those were probably the same kids.

Given that my eye sight is pretty good and I've already told you they were different kids - no. The kids on Friday were total geeks the kids on Thursday were sleazy-glamorous.

[Anonymous]

Yes UVa is a party school. Lots of drinking.