The Missing College Student, the Suspect, and Political Correctness.

Every day the body decomposes, evidence is lost. The surveillance cameras helped hone in on a suspect; forensic evidence will show if she was in the man's car, or if she lost blood or bodily fluids in his home or vehicle.

The suspect has legal rights, of course. I suspect an attorney would like to play this like the Casey Anthony case: if the body is eventually found, and does not reveal cause of death, one could get creative...

"She was drunk, she went into the bar where I bought her another drink. She consented, even in a very inebriated state, to go home with me. She passed out drunk, I tried to revive her but panicked... I disposed of her body, but I did NOT kill her..."

This all assumes, of course, the body is found one day.

The suspect's family expressed relief that he was arrested in Texas, and was brought home "safe". One hopes somebody would "lean on" this man to tell everything he knows, now!, to bring the missing woman home to her family too.

Sadly, justice does not work that way, and as we all remember from the Nicole Brown Simpson murder case, people have very little sympathy for pretty white women who becomes endangered, and sometimes killed.

This is a very timely case, as it causes us to re-examine what we teach our children, our daughters, and our own notions of political correctness. A fraternity at MIT recently outlined the liability dangers of admitting excessively inebriated young women on to their properties: don't do it!, the report urges. Turn them away at the door -- put them in a cab home to the dorm, or call campus security to escort them home.

Identify drunks at the door. I don’t care how pretty or flirtatious a young lady is; if she’s visibly intoxicated, don’t let her in. Although we were once reprimanded for turning away a drunk female student who ultimately required an ambulance when she passed out on our sidewalk, it would have gone a lot worse for us had she collapsed inside.

In addition to the usual bouncers, assign several brothers to monitor female party guests. If any appear out of control, walk them to the door and put them in a cab heading back to their dorm. You can send me the bill. If they refuse to leave, call for an escort from campus police.

Naturally, the catcalls came quickly from the empowered female lobby:

No advice about helping women get home safe if it looks like they need it. No instructions to call one of their friends. Nothing about men's behavior. Their own binge drinking. Just, you know, get those meddling women out of the house so it becomes someone else's problem. Rape doesn't factor into Frezza's piece at all, just his concern about false accusations and all manner of trouble women create for his fraternity men.

The latest case of the missing inebriated college woman demonstrates what can potentially happen when you take the drinking culture off of campus. Trusting young women, drunk to the gills, can choose badly.

Instead of assuming someone will always have your back, and carry you home safely to sleep it off, why not be practical? Teach young people that evil exists, and predators will prey. Perhaps the suspect merely bought the young woman drinks, left her at the door, and she stumbled into trouble on her way home. Like fell down an embankment and slipped into a river, perhaps.

The body, when found, might reveal clues as to how the missing woman met her death. But one clue is seen on the surveillance cameras: the young lady surrendered control of her body, her senses, to the alcohol. This could be a teaching moment -- this could save some lives down the road -- if we ignore the politically correct impulse to err on the side of women's "freedom" (to imbibe? to be as drunk as they wanna be?) and start teaching some common sense again.

No one coming from the right background ever assumes physical force will be used against them. But body weight matters. Speed counts too -- can you run, and THINK quickly, under pressure?

Trust comes easily when you are young.
Older, wiser people often know better.

ADDED: Can We Talk?

Forbes magazine has sacked a contributor over an online column arguing that drunk party girls were the "gravest threats" to the livelihood of fraternities, the Daily News has learned. The column by contributor and MIT-grad Bill Frezza titled "Drunk Female Guests Are the Gravest Threat To Fraternities," hit the web at 2:23 p.m. Tuesday, according to a cached version still available online.

It was yanked down almost immediately, according to Jezebel.

"Mr. Frezza’s post was removed from Forbes.com almost immediately after he published it," Forbes spokesperson Mia Carbonell told the Daily News. "Mr. Frezza is no longer a contributor to Forbes.com."

In an email, Frezza said Forbes rightly pulled the piece because its subject didn't fit the site's politics section and that the accompanying photo "was in poor taste."

"That being said I stand by every word I wrote," Frezza said.

"Most people have no idea what is going on on college campuses these days due to the ill-advised raising of the drinking age from 18 to 21, forcing so much of it to go underground," Frezza said.

"I have complete confidence that the men at the fraternity I mentor will always comport themselves properly. Any woman on campus knows that she is safe in our house, which is perhaps why some choose to behave with such reckless abandon," he said.

"You have no idea what a predicament this has put our colleges and well behaved fraternities in," he said.

"Unless and until we begin holding individuals accountable for their own behavior, and not institutions, my headline says it all."

Frezza also said he was glad the piece "kicked off a national conversation on the subject."