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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel
When a lot of us are making mention of kids now and kids before, there are quite a few things that are different and make the comparison difficult if not impossible. Many states did not raise the legal drinking age to 21 until the late 1980s (or 1990s if you're Louisiana with Frenchy Napoleonic Laws) so the parents of kids these days could often drink at 18 when they entered college. Perhaps some of that attitude or behavior has crossed the generation, and we all know of parents who are now held liable or responsible for buying alcohol for their minor children & children's friends. I know my parents were able to drink wine and beer before 21, but hard alcohol was 21+ and that state still has strange liquor laws, and many other states have those as well (Kevin, I'm looking at you and your warm beer for sale).
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Well, I was in Puritanny PA, so that really doesn't work.
Unless you were near enough to drive to Ohio, NY or WV, you were screwed. Our chapter apparently had formals in the 1970s in NY state but they certainly weren't close enough that it was a regular thing.
I also told MC this - I think even though we were pretty young at the time it was happening, Vietnam sort of got into our brain and made many of us grow up with a degree of distrust of authority. If that didn't do it, SNL did.
That is pretty much gone today, from what I hear/see.
And I agree with Dee, we never tried to do the 21 shots on our 21st. I don't think that's a generational thing though...a few years after I graduated it was the big thing...I think it filtered down from Penn State.
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