College life comes with norms and traditions that have existed for generations. Even in the 1920s, colleges still had gender segregation, Greek life allowed men and women to come together for drinking activities in private off-campus houses. When “Animal House” and “Saturday Night Live” was released in 1978, most states still had a legal drinking age that was under the age of 21. Parties began to evolve and imitate the ones shown on the screen. In 1984, when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed, the underaged drinking rates increased. Partying was still prevalent on college campuses. Colleges started to have coed dorms, which made it easier for men and women to meet, giving them the ideas to have parties in a single floor/room.
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The penalty for a minor is a criminal offense, and if they are convicted then they face jail time, fines, and supervised counseling. The penalty of violating the law for a provider consists of fines, jail time, license revocations. (Portman, "Minor in Possession of Alcohol: Underage Drinking Laws & Penalties | Criminal Law") Even knowing all of this, the partying lifestyle that most college students have been accustomed to still continues. This now will cause dangers to the community and the students because people will attempt dangerous ways of hiding these acts like obtaining a fake identification card, sneaking into the dorms to avoid and MIC or MIP, and sleeping at the party host’s house even if they do not know the person. The school and the state has the power to solve this problem. The problem hasn’t been solved because the law is too stuck in their ways to understand that partying is going to happen no matter …show more content…
It will show that the campus trust the students, and it will teach students to be responsible while drinking. MICs will still be given, but only if the student truly deserves one. For example, if the student is endangering his/herself or anyone else around them, then the student will receive the MIC. The “Tipsy Taxi” still won’t turn them away because the most important thing is to get the student home safely, but that student would have learned their lesson. There are many occasions where students are putting themselves in danger for no reason. The alternative proposal where MICs and MIPs are just given out with now explanation, needs to be put to a stop. It only hurts the community and causes mistrust and rebellion among the students of the UNR campus. This proposal will help to reinstate trust among the law and
The penalty for a minor is a criminal offense, and if they are convicted then they face jail time, fines, and supervised counseling. The penalty of violating the law for a provider consists of fines, jail time, license revocations. (Portman, "Minor in Possession of Alcohol: Underage Drinking Laws & Penalties | Criminal Law") Even knowing all of this, the partying lifestyle that most college students have been accustomed to still continues. This now will cause dangers to the community and the students because people will attempt dangerous ways of hiding these acts like obtaining a fake identification card, sneaking into the dorms to avoid and MIC or MIP, and sleeping at the party host’s house even if they do not know the person. The school and the state has the power to solve this problem. The problem hasn’t been solved because the law is too stuck in their ways to understand that partying is going to happen no matter …show more content…
It will show that the campus trust the students, and it will teach students to be responsible while drinking. MICs will still be given, but only if the student truly deserves one. For example, if the student is endangering his/herself or anyone else around them, then the student will receive the MIC. The “Tipsy Taxi” still won’t turn them away because the most important thing is to get the student home safely, but that student would have learned their lesson. There are many occasions where students are putting themselves in danger for no reason. The alternative proposal where MICs and MIPs are just given out with now explanation, needs to be put to a stop. It only hurts the community and causes mistrust and rebellion among the students of the UNR campus. This proposal will help to reinstate trust among the law and