<p>So does anyone presently going to, or who have recently attended OSU have any info on how strict the school is about enforcing their alcohol policies? Also, any word about the local bar scene and how they are about carding?</p>
<p>Let me get this straight. You are asking us to advise on breaking the law and whether or not you’ll get caught.</p>
<p>No, I am not asking for a How-To or for someone to tell me what to do, I will even be “of age” in just a couple months. I was more so just looking for some thoughts like “yeah people in my hall got busted regularly” or “my RAs didn’t seem to care about the guys down the hall who drank all the time”. I’ll be transferring from a university that is much smaller and that really seems to have a different approach to handling alcohol related issues. I ask mainly because all over OSU’s website there is information about how to handle various situations that involve alcohol, even the housing application asked me if I drink. Since from what I have seen, and I could be wrong, the school seems to be telling students something like “we know underage drinking is illegal, but we know you all do it anyway, so here’s what to do if you want to throw a party” while my old school would almost try to not acknowledge that there was a growing problem with underage drinking and more or less just sweep it under the rug.</p>
<p>Throwing parties in the dorms with alcohol is not a good idea, but really they’ll just take it away, write you up, and the hall director will scold you.</p>
<p>Off campus, the bars will card and parties often get broken up by the police for under age drinking. The police have some kind of grant that funds extra officers to go around to bars and the off campus area looking for underage drinking, so there’s definitely a risk.</p>
<p>Smart kids don’t drink and nothing good happens after midnight anywhere…</p>
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<p>Thanks, mom. How about be a little more realistic? That is, unless you are not that naive. </p>
<p>(psst., even the “smart kids” and very “smart kids” drink!)</p>
<p>Fully a third of Ohio State students are opting out these days. And a lot of college students elsewhere also. It’s just too big of a liability. Plus employers are starting to really check that plus your credit.</p>
<p>I new this guy. He just graduated last December and he’s dead now. They say drinking was a factor.</p>
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<p>Do you have a source?</p>
<p>I remember at orientation last month they told us that stat and showed both parents and students the source which I think were responses to a survey. I could be wrong about the source but I do remember that stat.</p>
<p>Yes, that is where I got it. From a friend who went through orientation.</p>
<p>Some kids on my floor freshman year had parties in their room multiple times. And they got caught multiple times. OSU knows people drink and party. That’s why they urge people to stay safe and have safety/escort vans. They don’t ignore the problem, but that doesn’t mean they’ll turn a blind eye to underage drinking. </p>
<p>If your door is closed and there’s some suspicious activity, the RA will knock and see what’s going on. RAs patrol the whole building every night for safety (different ones from throughout the building) so even if you had a lenient RA it wouldn’t make a difference.</p>
<p>Outside of the dorms… I’ve never been to a bar that doesn’t card – even on Senior Crawl night, when there are a million people out. Attempting to sneak into bars is really a stupid idea, because the cops will be less lenient than OSU. I’d not advise it.</p>
<p>Ohio State won’t turn a blind eye to underage drinking, but they’re not obsessive in trying to root it out. Gordon Gee, in fact, is one of the leaders among a group of university presidents lobbying to undo the 21 year old drinking age as they feel it contributes to a culture of irresponsible binge drinking.</p>
<p>It just seems as though people handled alcohol a lot more responsibly when they could go to bars and drink openly at 19.</p>