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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (534)	12/27/2006 12:39:05 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1277

At that moment in time and in that state the drinking age was 18. We had way too much fun. It seems like the college didn't even prohibit drinking in the dorms; maybe our RAs were just extremely lenient. Eventually the Feds used the threat of withholding highway funds to force all of the states to raise the drinking ages back up to 21 and thus rather than 95% of the students being old enough, 80% of undergrads are too young. It is one thing to look the other way in the first scenario, but a huge potential liability in the second. Of course society has become more litigious; which appears to be what you were alluding to. At that moment in time and in that state the drinking age was 18. We had way too much fun. It seems like the college didn't even prohibit drinking in the dorms; maybe our RAs were just extremely lenient. Eventually the Feds used the threat of withholding highway funds to force all of the states to raise the drinking ages back up to 21 and thus rather than 95% of the students being old enough, 80% of undergrads are too young. It is one thing to look the other way in the first scenario, but a huge potential liability in the second. Of course society has become more litigious; which appears to be what you were alluding to.