Dear Editor,
Whenever a deeply saddening event involving Ball State, like this past weekend's homicide, takes place and alcohol is present, people discuss alcohol consumption as if it is a problem that the community can handle with increased enforcement and preaching. You will find an identical student culture if you visit any state and almost any private university or college in the United States. "Cracking down" on student drinking will never come close to solving the problem, because for every student party that is obvious to police or causes someone to call in a complaint, there are hundreds of gatherings that take place unnoticed. Morally perverted individuals can also show up at these inconspicuous events.
Popular movies, books, magazines, TV shows and an incredible amount of advertisement have for years deemed college and underage drinking acceptable, and no indignant shaking of heads, lectures, sermons or increased police work can battle against them. Businesses earn large sums of money generated by student and underage drinking through legal means, and they will try hard to keep making this money. Nothing will stop this except a shift in our entire nation's perception of alcohol, and even a constitutional amendment failed to do that.
Most college students attend parties and consume alcohol, and most of them are good people. Even if alcohol consumption disappeared from the face of the earth tomorrow, bad people will still do bad things.
Sam Huff
Ball State Alumnus
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