@wis75 - Is there anything to know about the Wedding at Cana other than the miracle of Jesus turning water to wine and the painting by Veronese?
That painting has a special place in my heart. I hadn’t known the piece existed until I saw it at the Louvre when my now-college sophomore D was taking an art history class through AUP the summer after her sophomore year in HS (since she was not yet 18 and not in college, she couldn’t live in university-facilitated housing. DH and I did tag team stays in Paris, with some family time overlap, providing housing and disability-related support services when needed (e.g., museum visits).
Fast forward two years later and I’m in Venice staying on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore – which is where the original Wedding at Cana had been commissioned for the Benedictine monastery’s refractory on that island (which is where the painting had hung until the Napoleonic era when it was taken–in pieces–to France. Now, in the refractory, there is an exact replica of the painting now hanging at the Louvre (in the space where it was first commissioned). I had remembered the painting after seeing it at the Louvre two summers before, but I didn’t remember anything about its origins, so it was a pleasant surprise…(probably not as big a surprise as water being turned into wine, but still…)
@thumper1 @twoinanddone – I had never even heard of 3.2 beer. And how funny that legalized marijuana has been available in Colorado for years, yet you couldn’t even get regular beer in a supermarket!
College Navigator reports drug and alcohol arrests, both on-campus and in the dorms, for calendar years 2014-2016.
Barnard: 0
Wellesley: 0
Smith: 0
Mount Holyoke: 0
Mills: 0
Scripps: 1
Agnes Scott: 3
Bryn Mawr: 42
If my kid, who wants a women’s college, were choosing between that list, I would be hesitant about Bryn Mawr - not because I think they have any more drinking than any of the other schools, but because women who drink on campus at Bryn Mawr have a significantly higher risk of arrest than do women drinking at other schools.
Schools with a reputation for drinking culture:
Trinity (CT): 0
Claremont McKenna: 0
Tulane: 14
Elon: 48
Dartmouth: 153
Ideally, you’d standardize by something like arrests per thousand students per year, in order to get a fair comparison. And these particular statistics are worthless for schools that aren’t highly residential (where most people live off campus, or enough do that most drinking occurs off campus), because only on-campus arrests are reported.
Re 3.2 beer in Colorado, the convenience store clerk’s don’t tell you it is 3.2, so us uninformed visitors had no clue. 
No underage drinking at West Point. Period. Over 21, cadets can enjoy alcohol on post at the Firstie Club or the Officer’s Club. But, as with any college, I’m sure rules and reality don’t always align. Even before our son chose this route, however, I was a firm believer that if you can die for your country at 18, you should be able to drink and enjoy ALL the privileges of adulthood.
Minor in Possession tickets are serious business. My nephew got one on spring break in San Diego, but it wasn’t at a wild party. He and a friend were walking on the sidewalk with plastic cups and a cop on a Segway stopped them. Now he has to report it when applying for security clearances. A friend’s son got one riding a bike.
There are quite a few states that share information about MIP tickets and it can affect driving records.
My girl attends a small, midwest LAC. If all room/suite-mates are 21+, alcohol is allowed in the dorm, with room doors closed, subject to regular noise and quiet hour expectations. However, underage students are never exempted from state law and will be dealt if found drinking. If 21+ are present, they will likely also have consequences. If underage “Guests” are found drinking, everyone in the room finds themselves in deep doodoo. HOWEVER- “public intoxication” - regardless of circumstance - is a violation of the student code, which carries its own set of penalties.
And yes, that still leaves a lot of loopholes However, I am grateful that my girl decided to tell me that at her NYE party with friends, friend was allowed by parents to serve 1 hard cider/guest. I feel it was very respectful for her to say “I did this.” She could have refused it, or could have had it but not ever mentioned it. I want them to be able to tell me about anything - their highs, their lows, and their “yeah, it was a day” moments.
I have to say that back “in the day” my friends were far more terrified of having to call a parent about their student having alcohol poisoning than any punishment the college might distribute.
Large state school in CA here. Our official policy is teaching students safe alcohol consumption. It’s been accepted it will happen no matter what do administration is focused on safe behaviors while drinking. This begins with the new student orientation over summer where it is heavily emphasized. RAs will also be there to help. In regards to consumption in dorms. 21+ is allowed to store it. No consumption is allowed in dorms. If an RA can see it, hear it or smell it they have a right to enter the dorm and write the offenders up. Usually that results in speaking with the RD and having to take a quiz.