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Man falls out of window during Marathon party in Allston student warren
By adamg on Mon, 04/15/2024 - 11:07pm
WBZ reports on the man's plunge at 72 Gardner St. in the GAP area mainly occupied by BU students.
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Long standing (falling)
Long standing (falling) tradition for BU
Baby on BORG
Baby on BORG how I've adored falling through my second story window pane.
Was it a possible defenestration?
And he threw him out the window,
The window, the second story window
He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl.
Hilarious.
The guy was taken away on a stretcher. What’s wrong with you?
Contrary to popular belief,
Contrary to popular belief, people just don't "fall" out of windows.
In Mother Russia
These falls are seemingly everyday occurrences
Ugh! I’m glad this was ….
….NIMBY.
The offspring of snowplow, helicopter parents?
Deprived of making decisions on their own and therefore incapable of self control? Rebelling entitled brats?
What?
I dunno man, sometimes people just fall out of windows.
I was referring to the partiers ….
…. not specifically to the injured kid.
But my post is ambiguous. Please excuse.
There's an option to edit a post
It's pretty easy.
I am aware of that.
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
I don't think you have anything to worry about
Then just
Cite the edit.
You do you, Will.
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Helicopter parents?
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.
And I experienced college here in Boston and elsewhere some years ago. It was never as ridiculous as now.
Even in the Reagan years.
Have to disagree
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.
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
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.
Self reporting surveys, are, however, known to be unreliable.
Ask anyone who works in the alcohol industry
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
“(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 ...
That's because you don't know what you are talking about in the first place?
*Sigh*
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*”!!??
Thank you for the explanation.
More so Anecdotes
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.
Relax.
I’m sure you’re the world’s greatest mom.
So you have no actual data to share
Just wild extrapolation from a single data point.
Got it. Good to know.
Just wild extrapolation from
This is the internet, after all.
Ah, the Reagan years
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
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
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!
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.
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
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.
Nor is your experience the only valid one.
And you are talking about a later time period anyway.
LOL, hard to take you seriously
My point wasn't to say that my experience tells the full story, but to demonstrate that your claims are meaningless without actual data. It's hilarious that you understood that about my own testimony, but can't figure out how it applies to yours.
random musings
These are just tales of college days. They were not presented as New England Journal studies or Gallup polls, nor should they be taken as such.
“random musings” ?!!! Citation needed!!!
;)
we are not Margaret Mead
We are all sharing observations and opinions. That's all. I wasn't expecting to provide irrefutable evidence. "Random musings" is a phrase we use in our household, no offense intended.
Was he Russian?
Very Putin.
Hope this person does not share Andy’s fate
https://youtu.be/C6PvNYR8FYA?si=WfmAYEHdXfW976lE
That is fantastic!
What a great post!
Can't imagine
living in Allston around all those bratty entitled clowns. Look at the trash on the ground.
I'm sure the residents of
I'm sure the residents of Allston are glad that you don't live there, too.
Love your confidence, Itchy.
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Living in a student ghetto exploited…
… by absentee landlords must be a joy.