UGA is a horrible institution run by greedy and callous individuals who like to profit over young students' misfortunes. Athens-Clark County is the only place I know of that AUTOMATICALLY books first-time underage drinkers into jail. I am not talking about driving drunk, or being caught with open containers. I'm just talking about getting caught by the cops after having had a few drinks.
Any student at UGA who is caught after having drunk alcohol is arrested on the spot. These young kids get handcuffed behind the back, transported to the Athens-Clark County jail, fingerprinted, photographed, and then locked in a cell to await bond. This is a ridiculously harsh way to treat upstanding young college students on their own for the first, living in a college culture where drinking is celebrated and encouraged.
It is believed that UGA officials asked their police department as well as the ACC police to begin booking underage drinkers into jail rather than issuing citations like other college towns, to cut down on the party reputation. Well if you want to cut down on the party reputation, how about closing some of the bars or maybe not having a night bus that delivers busloads of kids straight from their dorms to the downtown bar scene every night?? Or how about cracking down on the bars which knowingly serve underage kids?
It is true that UGA has a party image. However, traumatizing young, peer-pressured kids with a trip to jail is certainly not the solution. This is why I hate UGA.
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