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October 25, 1984/The Maroon Tiger/Page 5A
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posedly believe “that you come
to IU to get drunk,” says Dean of
Students Michael Gordon.
“Some very important people,
including some students, staff,
and faculty, are willing to say,
‘Ha, (the campus alcohol policy)
is all a very funny joke,’’’Gordon
complains.
That’s evidently the feeling of
some Notre Dame students, who
last summer “kidnapped” a bust
of famed football coach Knute
Rockne to protest the school’s
drinking policy.
Along with a color picture of
the bust comfortably tanning at a
nearby beach, the Notre Dame
student paper has received a
ransom note warning that the
Rockne sculpture won’t be
returned "till the students have
their beer.”
Problems and complications
with alcohol policies also are
plaguing such schools as Fort
Hays State University, Arizona
State, St. Bonaventure, and New
Mexico, to name just a few.
“Alcohol-related problems
are obviously taking up more
time of campus law enforcement
agencies these days, and alcohol
abuse is a greater problem, or at
least recognized more," says
Dan Keller, director of Campus
Crime Prevention Programs and
chief of public safety at the
University of Louisville.
"We have two or three major
things happening at the same
time that are making the alcohol
problem greater, or at least more
visible on a lot of campuses,” he
explains.
For one thing, “students who
may have been drinking legally
off campus are now transferring
their drinking habits to campus
where new policies make drink
ing illegal.”
In addition, "many states are
now raising their drinking ages
to 21, creating displaced drinkers
who have no place to drink
except on campus,” he says.
Finally, Keller notes, “Alcohol
abuse has replaced drug abuse as
the number one student
behavior problem. And all these
problems combined are really
making alcohol an issue at many
schools.
“Any time you trim back
people’s rights and opportunity,
there will be some reactions,”
says Jonathan Burton, executive
director of the National Inter-
Fraternity Conference.
Just as many students and
fraternities were endorsing new
drinking policies and campus
alcohol awareness programs, he
says, administrators and
politicians started cramming
new rules down students’
throats.
Instead officials should be
working to “change attitudes as
opposed to legislation,” Burton
says.
“The whole movement might
have been much more effective
if the campus alcohol education
programs had been given more
time to pick up speed,” he
theorizes. “First comes educa
tion, then minds are changed,
and then legislation can be
enacted with everyone's full sup
port.”
And while the new campus
alcohol crackdown is preoc
cupying police, frustrating ad
ministrators, and angering
students, it may not be having
any effect on what it was design
ed to prevent: alcohol-related
accidents.
A tecent Boston University
study found that raising the
drinking age from 18 to 20 five
years ago has had no effect on
traffic deaths or the drinking
habits of underaged students in
Massachusetts.
The only thing the law has
done, says study author Robert
Smith, is foster among students
“a cynicism toward the
legislative process and disregard
for law enforcement.”
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