Alcohol on Campus

Hopefully I can expand on this idea later, but it was something that really stood out to me today. I actually think this is a cool idea. When I studied abroad last year in Heidelberg, it surprised all of us that there was beer served in the student cafeteria. You can find the same here in our cafeteria. There are also coffee machines (like vending machines) on every floor, in almost every hallway where you can buy a nice "spiked" coffee as well. And of course today, students were having a fundraiser (to travel to the US!), but they were selling Gluhwein (a warm-spiced wine) to earn money. I really wish US schools, and US as a whole wasn't so strict about alcohol rules. I feel like the more you try to restrict people, the more they will try to act out and resist. Students here don't go all out crazy...they just have a beer to have a beer. Construction workers here have a beer as part of their lunch. It's just nice to have the freedom of drinking what you want, where you want (respectably).