UGa: “Alcohol should be covered by the meal plan.”
 

http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/dis.../43d5a9f92e8e8

Although it is cliché to say underage drinking is a real problem, the bigger issue is students are not drinking responsibly — no matter what age.

_... On Facebook.com there are 26 groups with alcohol related titles including “Alcohol should be covered by the meal plan.”

The responsible thing is to allow drinking earlier, much the same as Germany and others do. Their alcoholism problems are much less and kids know how to drink responsibly. Sure it takes generations of acclimation, but we're America, yeah?

who cares if they are not drinking responsible hell most people learn afrer one or 2 bad nights of getting sick or waking up with a horrible hangover.

I hope one day, that America and it's colleges and greek systems, will support the idea that an adult should be responsible for themselves.

Hey... on some campuses up here you meal card is accepted at all the on campus pubs - and by dial-a-bottle :D

You used to be able to purchase alcohol at the on-campus bars with your meal card. However, students were running out of meal points by October, so they quickly put a stop to that.

Ah, another Great American Experiment, make it illegal for people under 21 to drink Alcohol:rolleyes:

The Only Country in The World to do this and by blackmail of course!:mad:

Dont teach Kids to drink sensably, tell them they cant.:mad: Really works doesnt it!:rolleyes:

Not true, in some countries alcohol is forbidden to all, including the <21s.

Still easy to find alcohol in those countries. Just like it is easy to find blow here. Doesn't matter if it's illegal or not.

Sometimes blow's easier to get than alcohol.

I recommend reading the post by Hoosier in Risk Management about the USA Today story in the January 25 issue that speaks to student deaths and studies that show that the brain of the average 18 year old has not reached the stage of making good decisions...

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=74414

With no pun intended, it's sobering for those of us who are parents and/or advisors.

I'm not really sure whether or not it matters which age they reach "good decisions."

I think that if you're taught to drink responsibly, you'll be more likely to do so. If alcohol wasn't treated as such a taboo, it wouldn't be such a big deal to get completely wasted. My bf's parents are Swiss, and they started giving him wine with meals at about 13. He's an extremely responsible drinker...and he always knows which wines to order with dinner.

Honestly, I think giving a teenager keys to a car is much more dangerous than teaching them to drink responsibly.

Hell ive been drinkin since i was 14 I've found my limits granted sometimes its fun to push them but most the time I stop before i get out of hand. Every one learns eventually when its their time to stop if alcohol was alowed at an earlyer age when parents can supervise it I personally believe it would cut down alot on the alcohol posionings and death related to alcohol.

And that's why it's so great to allow them to enlist in the military!! God Bless America!!

:rolleyes:

The bolded (by me) sentences from the USA Today article sum up what is the problem, not this "developing brain" nonsense.

**snip**
"Parents want the university to be protective," says Ann Franke, president of Wise Results, a Washington-based education law and risk management firm. But because some students arrive on campus without the skills to deal with new risks, and because they have privacy and other adult rights, "no college can guarantee 100% safety for students," she says.

Tucker Brown, 21, a junior at the University of Georgia in Athens and vice president of the student government association, says the sudden freedom college brings has an effect. "I think naturally you come to college, you don't have your parents there anymore, you know you can go crazy," he said during a USA TODAY roundtable discussion in December on college drinking. "Not that you've been waiting to go crazy, but now it is an option, especially for those people who were on a tight leash."

**snip**

Parents have to get a clue and realize the college is not going to shepherd and coddle their little darlings and call them when they are late for class and wipe their noses and tuck them in at night. Teach your kids about alcohol and let them make some mistakes under your roof before you send them out into the world.