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Originally posted by FloridaTish
When I was 18-23, I thought I knew it all. I had the mentality of "No one should be able to tell me how much I can or can't drink! I was an adult, damnit, in college and responsible for my own actions". Unfortunately, so many of these students are away from home for the first time and are innundated with decisions and situations that they really have never had to face before. They are in a new place, trying to fit in and make friends and meet a boyfriend. A lot of them come to the decision that drinking is OK and will help them loosen up and be more social. The choices made aren't always the best ones and as a result, a lot of bad things can happen...be it date rape, alcohol poisioning (I knew 5 friends who had to go to the hospital for that) or DUI.
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Doesn’t matter. Cant have your cake and eat it too. Either people are adults at 18 and can vote and fight for the country and create debt and go to jail as an adult, and face the responsibilities of their actions, or they aren’t adults and you don’t make/let them have the responsibilities. Its not a perfect world, but its like education funding, or the immigration problem, or crime. THERE IS NO PERFECT SOLUTION. The vast majorities of students will make responsible choices. Some wont. You want to take everyone’s rights away because a few cant handle theirs? But we as Greeks are the first to be all up in arms when one makes us look bad and we all get painted with a broad brush. Double standard much?
I say enforce the laws as they exist, get the state Alcohol control board in there doing some undercover work, giving MIP's by the dozen, fine the shit outta the bartenders/owners who get caught providing alcohol to minors. Hit everyone in their pocketbooks and its will end right quick. That and a few good negligence lawsuits would do the trick. Also end the free alcohol deal. That’s just trouble in the works and have the university work to clean up its image. Southwest Texas State (Now just Texas State) was the party school in the state in the 80's and early 90's. The school decided it had had enough and wanted to improve its image. They did. You can still have a good time there, but its not known for parties and it recruits a different kind of student now.