I have said repeatedly that college campuses are NOT safe places of higher learning.  Between the date rapes and carjackings and murders, send your kids to college armed with some common sense … and maybe a gun.

Read the entire story at the Salt Lake Tribune:

Call me a sexist, but I like to think of sorority girls as hotter than this!

Call me a sexist, but I like to think of sorority girls as hotter than this!

A Logan judge on Monday handed down jail time to a Utah State University student in the alcohol-poisoning case of Michael Starks, who prosecutors allege was a hazing victim. Grant Barney, 22, was sent to jail just a few days after another USU student died under suspicious circumstances.

A 29-year-old student who completed his last final exam Thursday and was drinking beer at home was later found unresponsive by his roommates, according to Logan police. The roommates began CPR and summoned emergency help, but the student was pronounced dead at Logan Regional Hospital early Friday, the morning before USU’s commencement.

Police Capt. Jeff Curtis said investigators do not yet know the man’s blood alcohol level and are awaiting toxicology results to determine a cause of death.

Judge Thomas Willmore cited that death Monday while putting Barney on probation for a year for obstructing the police investigation into Starks’ death last November. Barney, a member of a now-defunct Sigma Nu fraternity chapter, lived in the private Logan house where sorority women took the pledging Starks for an unsanctioned initiation party.

Starks, an 18-year-old freshman from Salt Lake City, consumed most of a 750ml bottle of vodka supplied by one of the women, who stripped him and painted him Aggie blue. Barney’s crime was throwing away the bottle after Starks died the next morning, say prosecutors, who dismissed a hazing charge against him…

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