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“It was really helpful, back when it was legal, that the college could officially be there when freshmen were drinking, to keep an eye on them,” Epstein said.
Despite the changes, a number of members of the class of 1984 said that they do not believe that increasing restrictions on alcohol during their last year of college reduced student drinking, though it may have meant that students drank more off campus.
Several alumni—both those who said they drank in college and those who identified as non-drinkers—said that the change in the college policies and the drinking age did not affect their lives. Some were already 21 by the time the law took effect; others...
“Most of the drinking that I remember took place in dorms,” said Scott D. Segal ’84, “The drinking age was not exactly the major issue.”
“The binge-drinking crowd is always going to find alcohol. But casual drinkers suddenly couldn’t have drinks at a party,” he added.