<p>“My frustration is how the colleges appear to turn a blind eye. They provide required quality alcohol education for all students but that seems to be where their involvement ends.”</p>
<p>IMO, that’s because many college administrators are conflicted about this issue. On the one hand, they face enormous liability and public relations issues when Really Bad Stuff happens on their campuses. On the other, most universities have long since dropped any pretense of the “in loco parentis” role that most took for granted in previous generations. Their students demand to be treated as adults (which, legally, they are except with respect to alcohol), and the parents seem happy to go along with that demand. At college orientation events, both students and parents roll their eyes at the mandatory drug/alcohol/sex information sessions, which seem to be regarded more as CYA imposed by the general counsel’s office rather than a truly useful source of information. Parents who dare to ask questions of the dorm staff regarding enforcement of alcohol rules get the same eye-roll from their less-uptight peers. The widespread attitude among the parents seems to be “they’re going to drink because they’re college kids but you damn well better not hurt their chances of getting into law school by writing up reports on alcohol violations.”</p>