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Originally posted by DeltAlum
It's possible, maybe even likely, that sooner or later the fact that, "everybody drinks underage in college," isn't going to matter any more. The schools will move back toward more "In Loco Parentis," the university and city police will crack down and a lot of students will suffer.
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"Everybody drinks underage in college" is a copout - an easy way to not focus on a real, life-threatening problem. We should not be ignoring the problem, just because "everybody does it," - we should be setting the standard, as fraternities started out to do.
Think about it - when was Greek Life truly the dominating force of leadership and postive examples on a campus? I would posit that this has not been the case in a majority of campuses since the late 1950-early 1960's, right about the time that in loco parentis started to be removed.
That is not to say greeks are no longer the leaders, but, in most cases, I would say it IS true, and, in many cases, the examples we set, are NOT the examples we should be setting (i.e. the leaders on the social scene...or the leaders for the most on-the-bleeding-edge of behaviors).
In too many cases, we have strayed too far from the original founding ideals of our organizations. I see movement back towards those ideals, which is encouraging, but, I have a feeling that society in general would judge us as being "too little, too late" in doing so.
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