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COLLOQUY
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It's simple. If we are to uphold the various mission statements of our institutions, we must allow students to make mistakes from which they will learn. At eighteen, they must be thrust into adulthood with all the responsibilities (and yes...RIGHTS) thereof.

Students need to take personal responsibility for themselves, always. It is part of a learning process so valuable, that it is a moral obligation of a university not to interfere with it.

The drinking age needs to be either lowered to eighteen, or abolished altogether. The current policy is anti-intellectual, prevents education, and cultivates rebellion. Universities should take the lead on this issue.

No court should hold anyone else responsible for an individual's behavior. It does not serve the common good.

-- Greg Bard, Associated Students Director of Academic Affairs, Associated Students of California State University, Chico (posted 11/2, 1:43 p.m., E.S.T.)
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