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I tend to agree with James as well.
While I was chapter adviser, my biggest source of stress was trying to police underage drinking in the chapter. I tend to think that if the drinking age were 18 or even 19, alcohol abuse wouldn't be the huge issue that it has become for college-age students.
Unfortunately, underage drinking isn't just a Greek issue, it's a college issue, and I think we as Greeks are just more concerned about it than universities in general are. I tend to think that non-Greeks have a larger population of underage drinkers in a college setting, because they don't have an organization over them telling them/educating them not to do it.
However, I also agree that if Greek organizations were to lobby to change this, it would be bad press for us. Those outside of the Greek system already think all we do is party, and if we were to lobby for a lower drinking age, it would only add fuel to the fire.
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