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[quote=Anonymous]Although the suspect in the Hannah Graham case has not been tried and convicted, we have learned a great deal in the past two weeks about how easy it is to get in trouble in a college town where binge drinking is commonplace. As a parent with kids who want to go to college, this incident and the Morgan Harrington case has me thinking we need to insist that colleges, individuals, families, and governments do more to ensure security.

What can we do moving forward?

My suggestions:

1. Buddy system: No one goes home alone. 
2. More police presence: Police and colleges should crack down on parties serving alchohol to minors. You get caught, you get kicked out of school. Police should patrol the streets -- on foot, not by car! -- and look out for people walking alone who are visibly drunk and get them home safely, no threat of arrest.
3. More surveillance videos in college towns
4. More fun, healthy socializing alternatives for those college kids in the "gap years" between age 18 and 21 every weekend.
5. Bars should be required to call cabs for any person who is annebriated (this includes underage people that they turn away at the door) and seems to be alone and thus get them out of the bar, home, and out of trouble.

Do any of these ideas make sense? Please chime in with any ideas you might have.
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