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Old 03-22-2011, 06:20 AM
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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel View Post
I was thinking of colleges where freshmen weren't allowed to have cars, almost everyone lives on campus, and is the kind of campus setting where everything was within walking distance.
Well, then as now that applied to some campuses and not to others.

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As far as the change with the 26th amendment and what lead up to it, i wasn't applying it to you as I didn't think you were that old
Oh, bless you. No, I'm not that old -- not quite. My siblings, on the other hand . . . .

Anyway, FWIW, it was in 1984 that the federal government mandated the 21-year-old minimum age for purchasing and publicly consuming alcohol as a condition of receiving federal highway money.
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