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wow, so i went to a school that did not enforce a 21 drinking age. meaning, security would not stop and card you, you were allowed to walk around campus with open containers, greek parties (yes i know about insurance) allowed people to carry in their own alcohol, and generally, unless you were being destructive, you could do what you wanted.
it was interesting to go to a college like that, and i loved it. we were treated as though we were adults, however, when not watched, there can still be a lot of issues with alcohol poisoning. drinking games, increased cases of sexual assult and general damage to property. I think the free nature of my campus maybe increased these risks slightly.
Also, NPC houses, are we not supposed to have dry houses? mine was fairly far from it, but nevertheless, we walked a fine line that could create huge risk if anything every happened. it is much easier to control women when most of them can't purchase, now if they all can, enforcement of that will still be an issue, our houses will not become 'wet' overnight. Our insurance may very well go up, if everyone were of drinking age...thats added risk...
finally, while i support it, there is the whole correlation of federal funding to highway systems. for example, WI, where i grew up and went to college, was forced to change to 21 or lose federal funding for highway systems, (we have wonderful roads up there) then IL an MN and Iowa were at 21 (right before we switched) and you had large numbers of kids crossing the state lines and then driving home. the drinking age is a state issue, and so because of that national change is hard. another problem is that 18-20 year old kids are a roatating age bracket, also with low voting turnouts, thus you have less intrest from politicans to push the issue, and people keep getting older, and thus, care less as they move farther away from the age bracket.
Yea it would be nice...but honestly, maybe greeks should work on community service, safe use alcohol programs and other 'good' works, than just changing the age...my 2cents
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