When I first plugged in my headphones and started to listen to the podcast I felt the reporters were being a little biased. Here they were sitting up in the early hours of the morning waiting for drunk college students to walk by so they could use them as examples. However, I also felt the woman's annoyance at them was justified. Why does she deserve people peeing in her yard and ripping signs off of her street. On one hand I can sympathize with her because it really is unfair that she should be subject to this because she lives in a college town. On the other hand I can understand how it is to want to do crazy stupid things and be young. When your friend is peeing in the grass next to someones lawn you often don't stop and think.....wait, how would the person feel if they knew she was doing this? Instead the only thing on your mind is that you want to have fun, or really don't want to see your friend pee her pants.
I believe that there was a sense of balance throughout the piece so that even when Penn State maybe wasn't portrayed in the best light, the reporters did relate to the students and admit they were the same way when they were younger. I also feel that even though there were heavy parts in the podcast there was a bit of humor to lighten the mood. For me, I feel as if the party scene was portrayed fairly accurately. There are still bus rides on the weekends where drunk people sing songs and you can still see people doing dumb stuff like stealing street signs or throwing garbage cans. The part where the guy at the frat was saying he just wanted to get the girl drunk so he could take advantage of her was funny and probably true. A lot of my girl friends want to get drunk and have fun and a lot of the guys want to get the girls drunk so they can have fun later.
The most shocking and provocative part of the podcast for me was when they were talking about all the deaths that have occurred at Penn State due to drinking. I think the scariest part of it was the "averageness" off all the nights and how it could relate to anyone. As humans we have this thought process that it will never happen to us. We will never go to jail because we'll never be dumb enough to do something that will put us in jail, we'll never get in an accident because we're really good drivers. However, I feel the podcast did a good job showing how this could really happen to anyone because it's not like the people who died did anything crazier than what we do on our weekends. They didn't drink any more than we do or act crazier than we do. This was enlightening because it made me think, if these people did the same things that we do then what is to stop us from becoming like them?
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