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Originally posted by Coramoor
Again, this is why the US is really sucking anymore. No one is ever responsible for their own actions.
People can get just as drunk off of beer, especially freshmen, as they can hard liquor.
I've been in school long enough to see that most of the time I get in trouble does involve hard liquor-but that's after a bottle myself. Still doesn't justify banning it.
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I agree...on the surface perhaps it will look like the adminsitration is taking action...but really students who are out to get drunk will think that since it's 'harder' (I only say harder b/c lets face it...there not going to all lay down their bottles of Wild Turkey in simple subordination) to get drunk without hard booze and they'll think need to double their efforts as they try to drink 20 beers instead of taking 10 shots...not realizing that they are really taking in twice as much alcohol. Bad things can happen with beer too.
I don't claim to know what the reasonable answer is, but this looks like a band-aid to me. It's not always WHAT you are drinking, but the drinking itself, how its done, and the attitude towards it, those are where the real problems rest and where the real solutions must be geared towards. It's not an impossible task to change a collegiate cultural attitude that existed for decades...it takes a lot of time, patients, and effort...three things that Universities afraid of lawsuits and parents and students who want to place blame elsewhere sometimes don't have.
Don't blame Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker, Jose, or even the Captain...if you want to place blame then blame the kids who don't take responsibility for their own actions, blame the parents for not teaching them how to be responsible, blame decades of college culture for creating this trend, and then stop blaming and work to find real solutions.