Phelps is a moron for smoking out of a bong at a party in front of people who had a camera. You put yourself all over the world and hail yourself an Olympic Champion... yet you are too dumb to avoid behavior which you know would wreck everything you have.
"Average College kid" or not, have a clue when it comes to being in the spotlight.
When I was the frontwoman in my band, Klovr, in the early 2000's, every youth group kid in the state seemed to recognize me where ever I went. No matter how much I wanted to partake of smoking herbs at whatever party I was at, there was NO WAY I would take the risk of wrecking my public image. (Now I'm an unknown joe & there's no worries, lol).
Kelloggs is right to take him off their cereal box, even though the main consumers of their products are stoners who have the munchies.
You can't be a normal joe doing whatever you like in public, when you're a public figure. Hard fact of life Phelps, too bad you learned the harrrrrrrd way!!!