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Article: On Campus, Legal Drinking Age Is Flunking the Reality Test
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 21, 2008
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Next week, when President C.D. "Dan" Mote welcomes freshmen to
the University of Maryland, he will inform them that the college
police will enforce underage drinking laws "with terrific ferocity."
And then he will turn around and, recognizing that most students do
drink, tell the teenagers "to take care of each other when they see
someone who's passed out, to take advantage of all of our services
for students who abuse alcohol."
"We have a real conflict here," Mote says, and he's talking not
only about the College Park campus but about every university and
about our entire society. We live in a time when efforts to enforce
the prohibition on drinking before age 21 are more aggressive than ...
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