Ex-Duck Gets Community Service

Everyone knows that they are being watched more closely, yet there continue to be easily avoidable incidents. Why aren’t more people recognizing and adjusting to prevailing circumstances?

This comment is a bit overstated in my opinion. For you are talking about 22,000 to 23,000 students at the UO (and how many are athletes or club members?) and you have incidents like this all the time with that large of a student population. Is it really “avoidable?” Who seriously is going to “police” every single athlete let alone merge that with the larger concerns of a large university?

Maybe since she was a cheerleader I guess there could have been some more direct intervention, but again this comes back to I imagine there are a good number of citations and run ins with the law every week that involve university/college athletes and students (UO, OSU, PSU, LCC, LBCC, and so on) we will never hear about.

I think it is a bit disingenuous by the media to nit-pick every incident that occurs and point fingers.

Yes, there should be a culture of community within the universities to foster upstanding behavior. Yes some groups will be on the fore-front of this image. But I know from personal experience I was not above the moral fray when I was an undergrad at OSU. Remember that these are young adults (in many cases kids really) and so again this type of stuff is going to happen.

Assaults though start to cross the line of stupid and reckless behavior and move into much more serious and need to be paid attention to by people mentoring those students, but at the same time saying because the football team has had issues that every single student on campus is going to be on their best Ivy League behavior is just unfair.

Yeah. Same here.

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