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I remember the 18 drinking age (for 3.2 only) when I first rushed - and this was the very end of wet-rushes. Wow.
Things certainly have changed, I can definitely say, for the better by raising the drinking age - I was "fortunate" I guess that I wasn't affected by the change to 21 (I was grandfathered, and one of my AM class members missed the cutoff by ONE DAY - was he ever pissed) - but those days were definitely wild. Too wild, really. The risks people took - driving, social issues, while intoxicated...unreal. Also, it really allowed the focus to be on alcohol more than what we should have focused on as fraternity and sorority members - we were too interested in abusing the pleasures of membership, versus focusing on the responsibilities of membership. Things have changed for the better in that department, in my opinion, for the most part.
I'm somewhat glad the age was raised - though I don't see the problem it was intended to fix as having been solved at all - it still happens all to often (I still don't get how 18-20 year old students feel this "entitlement" to be able to drink as well - it is illegal, and that is just the way it is - don't like it? Work to change it!)
What really bugged me about the change - was how the federal government put so much pressure on states to make the change by threatening to withhold money for highway/road projects in-state. I always found that tactic to be somehow unconstitutional, but no one ever challenged it, they just caved in to the demands.
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