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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Maybe it would be better to make the beer drinking age 18 as it was in Ohio when I was in college. I don't know whether it would be or not. But it isn't.
I think this would help a great deal - even if it was 3.2 beer. Kind of alcohol training wheels so to speak. If you were 18 and that was legal, I think people would stay to it and not break the law. As I see now people are "learning" to drink on Wild Turkey and the like.
I suppose what bothers me most is not learing from past problems and mistakes. That's just plain dumb.
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(sounding like your parents comment ahead) When you are 19 years old in 2001, 1998 sounds like it's 50 years ago. You were in high school then - your whole life is different. There is a turnover at colleges every 4 years and a very short memory. lifesaver said something about "college time" - that is very true - when I look back I can't believe that was only 4 years of my life because so much happened.
The main thing this says to me is that alcohol free housing (at least at IU) is doing very little to improve the safety, health or drinking habits of students. This might be working at other schools, but at this one, it seems all it's doing is taking liability off the school and the groups and actually encouraging dangerous behavior. It's a bridge that only goes halfway across the river.