btw, here's a question- how many college town drinking areas ARE right on the mississippi? i imagine there are a lot.. but if lacrosse were the only one-- then there's your answer.
Well, there's Winona - a college town practically right across the Mississippi, and their bars are much closer, or right on the river. No deaths that anyone can remember. Farther down is an IL college town with bars on the water where Kruziki did drown. Farther up is the St. Croix - and I used to live in one of the towns on it, Hudson. Bars and a big park on the river. No deaths. Stillwater on the other side - no deaths. U of M has the river running right through it - there have been deaths. Other towns have had deaths in small amounts of water, creeks, lakes, etc. See Vance Holmes for the stats.
La Crosse, though, is way out of wack for number of deaths in the number of years. And while the Mississippi would be harder to get out of once you were in, the falling in part is what I can't understand. UW-Madison has the Terrace right on the water (beer drinking) and a TON of frat houses with docks and all right on the lake. Plus Lakeshore Path and a number of dorms on teh lake. I can't remember a single soul ever falling into the lake, yet there's so much more opportunity for it. State Street is just as close to the lake as Third Street, and more residential, so people would be more likely to get disoriented. It just doesn't add up.
Well, there's Winona - a college town practically right across the Mississippi, and their bars are much closer, or right on the river. No deaths that anyone can remember. Farther down is an IL college town with bars on the water where Kruziki did drown. Farther up is the St. Croix - and I used to live in one of the towns on it, Hudson. Bars and a big park on the river. No deaths. Stillwater on the other side - no deaths. U of M has the river running right through it - there have been deaths. Other towns have had deaths in small amounts of water, creeks, lakes, etc. See Vance Holmes for the stats.
La Crosse, though, is way out of wack for number of deaths in the number of years. And while the Mississippi would be harder to get out of once you were in, the falling in part is what I can't understand. UW-Madison has the Terrace right on the water (beer drinking) and a TON of frat houses with docks and all right on the lake. Plus Lakeshore Path and a number of dorms on teh lake. I can't remember a single soul ever falling into the lake, yet there's so much more opportunity for it. State Street is just as close to the lake as Third Street, and more residential, so people would be more likely to get disoriented. It just doesn't add up.