Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote for President or the risk of being tried as an adult and sent to jail for embezzling from "An Evening With Champions"? At 18, we're entrusted with legal control over and responsibility for our actions. Three years later, we're granted the legal right to get drunk and risk losing self-control and abusing that responsibility...
...having fake IDs, though I never did come close to getting one. I started wondering how I could have wasted so much mental energy condemning my peers for drinking underage. I began to develop favorite beers and mixed drinks, despite being just 20. I even came close to getting drunk. (Don't laugh...
...also used to justify not drinking on grounds of hypocrisy, given that I believed (and still do believe) that 21 is the proper drinking age--it encourages us to think twice before drinking at a young age and, studies show, it cuts drunk driving deaths. But hypocrisy began to seem like a smokescreen, given my propensity to jay-walk and speed without hesitation...
According to Hansen, one man who appeared drunk or on drugs approached him as he began to cross Grant St. The man mumbled some words and asked him for the time. As Hansen backed away from the man, another man grabbed him from behind. Together, the two men held him against the fence that parallels Grant...
...secondary effects" the committee worries about include loss of "study or sleep because [students] are worried when a friend gets so drunk he or she does nor return home until the next morning" and students who must "baby sit" their drunk roommates on weekends...