Illegal underage drinking is fuelling many of the disputed sexual encounters that are roiling college campuses around the country.

And university administrators don’t have the guts to confront this issue directly because it would make them unpopular with students who regard the right to get drunk and “hook up” as fundamental to the college experience.

Many if not most of the she-said-he-said controversies about whether a sexual encounter was consensual involve one or both parties being drunk. In these situations, memories are blurred and the woman is almost always believed. Moreover, women aren’t charged when they have sex with a drunk man. It’s a one-way street.  

Colleges that knowingly permit drinking by underage students are not only morally complicit, they may be... Leer Más