In reaction to removing the age-based drinking ban on college age citizens, University of Iowa President Sally Masson says that it will not solve the problem.  Brilliant, then stop treating high school graduates as something other than adults.

Remove the non-effective infringement on their liberty, treat them and hold them responsible as adults, and expect them to act that way.

If there is to be regulation of adults behavior that discriminates base on age, pass a law that requires 50-years olds to act and look grown up.  Who knows, it might finally shape me up.

Mason says, “I believe significant cultural change is necessary to solve this problem.”  That is why the nation repealed the Volstead Act that gave the nation prohibition and a period of provoked excess and rampant disregard for law that was called the Roaring Twenties. 

If an institution dedicated teaching and learning dose not know how to assist its students to beneficially thrive personally and socially, get out of the way and leave the good council to a friendly bartender.

Sam Osborne

West Branch