Blurring the lines of courtesy

So imagine if you will that you are an attractive college woman who is just concluding a night on the town with your friends (we'll say you just left the Bluebird). You now wait patiently on the sidewalk for your sober ride/taxi to pick you up and safely drive you home. Low and behold, the waft of pizza and hot dogs manages to find you through all the surrounding madness, so you decide to surrender the two dollars for a lovely piece of Rocket's pepperoni pizza. \nNo sooner have you lifted the pizza to your mouth to take your first bite when you notice the man of your dreams approaching with a swagger in his step and a twinkle in his jewelry (sarcasm duly noted). Sure, he is the smoothest thing to come along since Land O' Lakes, so smooth he asks if he can have a piece of pepperoni off of your newly purchased sustenance. You watch in horror as his fingers creep toward your untouched slice and you can't help but notice the dirt flooding his fingernail beds. Without thinking twice, you pull the plate away. He has been denied. \nRather than bowing out gracefully, he calls you a *bleep* and proceeds to noisily insult your figure. O.K. I'll cut the hypotheticals. This happened to my friend last week. \nNo sooner had that dreamboat slithered back into the sewer from where he came when my friends and I overheard another group of collegiate heartthrobs heckling the hot dog vendor. Calling him "stupid" and "retarded," these college "men" taunted the man for doing nothing more than making an honest living. And, I am sure there are just as many examples of females behaving equally as bad. \nAlcohol is a wonderful thing. I would go as far as to call Miller Lite an elixir of the gods, Greekly speaking. But there is an important difference between having fun and having so much fun that you upset everyone around you. \nWe all know the statistics, they've been drilled into our heads thousands of times. Drinking leads to accidents. For instance, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, in a report on alcohol related crimes, four in ten violent crimes involve alcohol. And, who can forget the nail-biting campus introspective, citing alcohol arrests on campus have skyrocketed this past year. \nJust because you are feeling good does not suddenly make you infallible to prosecution or opinion columnists. I think, in the drunken future, we all need to take a step back, count to ten and breathe before calling people names or insulting one another. It did not fly on the swing set or outside of the Bird three Wednesdays ago, and it will not fly in the real world. While I cannot speak for every female here on campus, I would venture to say that as a general rule, if you insult girls because they won't give you whatever your little drunken heart demands, you are not going to help your chances with them or with any of the females who happen to be standing around. As I told that silly boy jeering at my friend, "Get some class"