Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Double Standards in American society Message-ID: <332@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 17:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.332 Posted: Mon Jul 8 17:27:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 15:06:53 EDT References: <300@tektools.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Distribution: na Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 39 Summary: In article <300@tektools.UUCP> bobc@tektools.UUCP (Bob Crane) writes: >I can't take it any more! I'm old enough to go fight a war, pay >200 dollars in taxes on my last pay check, and get the death >sentence, but because I'm under 21, I'm not old enough to >buy a glass of beer. >Bob Crane I know how you feel. Still, I've been thinking about it. States that raise the drinking age to 21 have proven reductions in drunk driving deaths; I'm all for that. Also, being near 21, I have lots of friends who will buy for me (I feel really stupid having to do this). As far as bars go, I'm a student and can't afford $20 a night for drinks. The only difficulty I've had is the graduate student pubs here at MIT. Once the bartender said,"You're a grad student, right?" I said yes and he believed me because I had been visiting the pub ever since day 1 freshman year. At the other pub, a friend of mine was tending bar and said, I really can't serve you here anymore without some kind of ID. At that point, I took out a five dollar bill, wrote my name and a fake date on it and ordered a pitcher of stout... Most of the students here are not so complacent (particularly fraternities). Parties now require liquor licences and are shut down at 1 AM (you know how us nerds get when we're drunk!). MIT capmus police have the authority to look the other way in these cases, but have chosen to follow the city of Cambridge. In a meeting with the dean, I mentioned the stupidity of this "who drives to an MIT party?". The dean assured me that "next year the campus police have told us they will have a new attitude." Like hell. In general, I support the raise (although it affects me), but I don't understand the current trend of universities to change their policies as well. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack. No one knows about it." -Rev. Wang Zeep