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Originally posted by IvySpice
You're right about the commentary. That's the real story.
It's extraordinary that these 50-year-old alumni are withholding donations from their alma mater because it is actually attempting to enforce the law. (My favorite is the place where the alum puts the word "underage" in quotation marks, as though the laws of the State of North Carolina are some kind of mere formality!)
I also love the way "Al Adams" mentions tea parties and poetry readings as examples of dry events. Apparently this guy does not have a lot of imagination. I also love the way he equates lack of alcohol with lack of a campus social life. Because, after all, it's a scientific fact that it is impossible to have fun with your friends while sober.  I guess after 50 years, this guy still can't work up the nerve to talk to a girl unless he's smashed, and expects that all the guys at Duke are just as limited as he.
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The school isn't trying to enfore laws. They are trying to legislate morality. It's not against the law for someone over the age of 21 to purchase or consume alcohol, UNLESS you are Greek. What law is someone breaking if they are over 21 and they have a keg at a private off campus residence?
If a university alcohol policy is fair and good for the students then how come those policies don't apply to ALL student organizations?
How come many universities make themselves exempt from their own alcohol policies? Greeks can't serve alcohol at private off campus homes but the university will serve alcohol on campus at fundraising affairs. It a little hypocritical for universities to have those gay alcohol awareness programs and they lecture the new freshman on the evils of alcohol when the university serves alcohol at all alumni functions.