Do you really like your music? I mean really, really like your music? Do you upload it and download it and put it on your iPod and your IPad and your laptop and your desktop and maybe even something as old-fashioned as a CD player?
If you really like your music, then it seems like it would be a really wonderful opportunity to actually hear it performed. It’s probably an expensive opportunity also since many concerts cost a lot to attend.
It seems to be the norm these days that the best way to listen to one’s music is while fairly drunk or on drugs. And the fact that it’s illegal and on University property doesn’t matter. According to some Techno-music fans, drug use often goes hand in hand with this sort of music.
On Saturday November 19, 2011 there was a concert at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. Unfortunately, the police had to do more than direct parking or break up fights over tickets or seats. They arrested more than 30 people on charges ranging from drug and alcohol usage to simple assault. All together there were 32 adults and 2 juveniles.
There was also a fire on campus where the roof of the storage building went up in flames. Thus far no one knows how the fire started but it is considered to be rather suspicious.
The University isn’t sure how many of those who were arrested were students and how many were non-student guests. If some of them were students, then there will be repercussions, but until that is known, no speculations were offered as to what those consequences might be.
This follows closely on the heels of National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Day which many campuses promoted. Many colleges have also instituted an Alcohol 101 course which incoming freshmen have to take. But as we have often seen, just having education available does not mean that students, or other people in the area, are going to change their decisions as to how they will behave.
Often it takes something drastic – a friend dying or getting hurt, or a person realizing that his educational opportunities are being greatly compromised – before a person realizes that it is time to make a call for help.
