Stanford changes alcohol policy

Any move by any college to put restrictions in place to curb under age alcohol consumption is fine with me. This happened at my son’s college as part of a state grant geared at curbing underage drinking on the state unis campuses. From what I can tell years after this went into practice it has definitely had a chilling affect especially with freshman who are required to live on campus. It did not preclude kids from leaving campus but cut way down on kids pre-parties in dorms. Stepping up the issuance of MIP tickets consistantly for kids caught staggering around a campus works well also. No one on college campuses “likes” to put a legal blot on a kids record like an MIP, but I believe the time has come where colleges are now in a position to have to use a firmer hand to protect themselves from alcohol involved lawsuits where the students are often breaking the law to begin with. I doubt that boundaries have anything to do with what a college (or a business) regulates relating to behavior. As a country we’ve seen this in practice around smoking restrictions which can be different, generally stricter in most cases, than local regulation.