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[quote=Anonymous]I think that the two SAE brothers booted from OU deserve their day in court and President Boren's decision to expel them was expedient yet questionable. Especially in light of the Supreme Court's decisions on speech codes and 1st Amendment cases (KKK, Westboro). I abhor the brothers' behavior as much as any thinking person, but these guys will have a good defense in court since there's a distinction between their actions (calling for lynching) and making an immediate or specific threat towards a specific individual.

And as a recent college grad, I think lowering the drinking age to 18 or 19 and curbing the zero-tolerance nonsense for underage possession of alcohol on campuses would do a LOT to mitigate the garbage that originates in Greek life and the unofficial underground houses that pop up after the chapter gets banned. I went a well regarded northern school (Dickinson) and our SAEs were huge tools too. They were infamous for nasty behavior and the first (and last) SAE party I went to freshman year was the first time someone offered to sell me coke. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them knew that infamous chant... yet girls flocked to their house and other frats on weekends for various shenanigans, largely because our college town was small and boring and our six frats were the only game in town for big parties with alcohol on weekends. Why? America thinks 18-20 year-old adult citizens can't be trusted to buy, consume or possess booze. I get why this law made sense in 1985, but a revision of this policy is long overdue. Most college kids WILL drink underage and would be better off under the supervision of a bartender who can cut them off and call them a taxi instead of binge drinking behind closed doors in filthy basements. I don't think that outright banning Greek life is the answer to improving campuses either, but I can't help but think we'd have less sexual assault, less violence and fewer sad headlines about degenerate campus behavior if we stopped infantalizing young adults and let them go to a damn bar legally, like their peers in the rest of the Western world.

I had a great time in college, but the status quo needs to change fast.[/quote]

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