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I love how even in the example they quote, the kid is 21, so this policy wouldn't apply to him anyway.
I have a friend who is an RA here, and he's told me that apparently they have started employing this rule in the dorms here when a kid has broken some rule. My RA friend thought this rule was bullisht and so did I. When I was in the dorms, I was 18 AND I was paying for my own housing costs, so my parents had no responsibility over the situation whatsoever. Furthermore, for me and most of my friends -- our parents KNEW we drink. You have to be kidding yourself if your kid goes to this school and you think that they don't ever drink, unless they're sitting at home alone in their room all the time. So calling my parents up and saying, "Oh, Heather and her friends got caught at a party on Friday night, drinking underage" would lead my parents to respond, "Yeah, we already knew that."
Then there are the situations like alphaalpha's where calling parents can lead to an even worse situation.
And overall, I don't think that the best way to promote responsibility regarding drinking is to treat these students like they're still 15. You treat somebody like a kid, they're going to act like a kid.
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