<p>A CC poster Class of 2009 Cornell has died.</p>
<p>Kids, if your friends appear unconcious, GET THEM TO THE HOSPITAL. Do not worry that they will get in trouble, or you will get in trouble or the fraternity will get in trouble. Do not assume that you know how to safely position your drunk friend to 'sleep it off'. These are all small worries compared to losing a life.</p>
<p>Best bet is to call 911. Or call their parents or call another adult or take them yourself.</p>
<p>Wow....that's really sad :(.</p>
<p>Wow... unbelievably sad.</p>
<p>yeah thats sad but how do u know he was a CC poster?</p>
<p>That's very sad. :( I'm sure it's a wake-up call to many. Drinking isn't something to take lightly.</p>
<p>Stoner.....</p>
<p>Wow..that is sad. I can't bring myself to read his past posts.</p>
<p>Still how did you know he was the guy in the article?</p>
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<p>Several people actually knew him.</p>
<p>that is reaaaalllyyy sad. :( his last post was just the afternoon before he died.</p>
<p>He's certainly not getting my sympathies, I mean, with a name like "Lucifer"...God is punishing him. :)</p>
<p>"But Pearlstone may have spent the previous evening at a fraternity party, said Aaron Laushway, associate dean of students and director of fraternity and sorority life. Thats widely believed.</p>
<p>Laushway added, though, that the investigation is in its early stages. University police are looking into the death, but Chief Melissa Fielding would not comment on the matter.</p>
<p>The cause of death has not been determined, Laushway said. I think its fair to say the students are very concerned and grief-stricken about this. Theyre cooperating with the university fully.</p>
<p>My condolences go to his family and friends.</p>
<p>Based on his posts, many of which highlighted the alleged delights of drinking, perhaps his demise is a sad reminder about the dangers of equating "partying" with heavy drinking.</p>
<p>thats sad........my sympathies goes for the family....they are devasted now.... :(</p>
<p>IMO, a better subject header would be: " CCer dies. Kids: heavy drinking can be fatal."</p>
<p>If drinking was the cause of the young man's death, it was his fault, not his friends.</p>
<p>Yeah, if he died from drinking, he's a LOSER.</p>
<p>thats you must not drink to get drunk......you must drink to satisfy your need of drinking and fitting in socially..............or do as some people do......just walk around with a red cup in your had and act your drunk................youll fit in</p>
<p>gumball - **** off.</p>
<p>CC post from the deceased last fall. The irony is that he apparently spent a lot of time looking up info on alcohol and health so that he could refute people concerned about the dangers of underaged drinking. </p>
<p>"All of you who advocate kicking kids out of college for getting drunk are totally misguided. Why is it wrong for someone to get drunk 3 times? Because they are under an arbitrarily defined age? Because they did something that COULD be bad for them? Would you suspend/expel kids from college for eating too much pizza and getting fat (obesity is every bit as bad for you as drinking, and in many cases is much worse; obesity is certainly much more prevalent than alcoholism, and causes many more problems; alcohol can trash your liver and damage your heart, obesity can trash your liver, heart, put you at risk of most every sort of cancer, give you high blood pressure, etc...)?</p>
<p>Additionally, here are FAR greater threats to America's health than alcohol. You'd all be better off focusing on requiring excercise at all colleges, getting healthier food into meal halls, or making fast food less accessible, if you're going down the (rather foolish) path of trying to regulate people into health.</p>
<p>There isn't even much of a point to drinking 3 or 4 beers over a five or six hour night - most people won't feel much, if anything. From a logical standpoint, "binge" drinking is the only way to experience the effects of alcohol over a long (5-6 hour) night.</p>
<p>One MAJOR problem with the studies conducted at colleges is that most kids have NO IDEA how much they drink, and many lie on the surveys, especially if there is any reason for them to assosciate admitting to drinking with getting in trouble (first part is proven fact (it was a prominatnly featured fact in the alcohol education that Cornell put us through that most people underestimate by 92+% the amount of alcohol in the mixed drinks they have), second part is anecdotal experience)."</p>
<p>so we shouldnt put much attention to expelling kids who drink excessively?.....interesting point of view</p>
<p>definition of ironic?</p>