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Originally posted by valkyrie
Once you're 18 or so and going away to college, you're an adult who should have the knowledge and skills needed to survive -- at the very least.
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Having now raised three children, my experience is that although we have set an age of majority at 18, by far not every 18 year old is smart enough or mature enough to take care her/himself.
Upperclassmen and alums, take a look at the incoming Freshman Class. Don't they seem like children to you?
In terms of parents preparing them, sometimes no matter how hard you try, kids just don't listen -- believe it or not. Sometimes parents are in the dark, too. My parents had no clue I was drinking in high school. I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family where any drinking was highly discouraged.
I still believe, as I've said in other threads, that moderation is the key and that is probably only going to come with peer pressure. A young woman/man is much more likely to emulate and upper-classperson than their parents at that time of life, I think.
To get back to the IFC at Colorado saying no to the administrations, while I understand the reasons, I'm not sure that's wise on their part. As I've said before, Colorado has taken an interesting hands off approach, I believe in the hopes that the Greeks will get so outrageous without university governance that they will end up destroying the system from within. The university has already asked that pending liquor licenses in the campus area be denied. I can see them going to other government entities for legislation against fraternities and sororities.