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Sometimes twisted logic makes sense.
This may be one of those times.
Ron French of Bridge Magazine writes:
Keg beer may be part of the solution to decreasing high-risk binge drinking on college campuses.
You read that right.
Campus leaders and police say a 2010 law curtailing keg beer at college parties had the unintended consequence of increasing dangerous drinking, because students began filling their Solo cups with hard alcohol. An effort is underway, led by politicians, retailers and at least one university president, to roll back a law that even its sponsor now says is ineffective.
The keg law requires those renting kegs of beer to leave their name and contact information, allowing police to more easily charge the hosts of campus keg parties that served beer to underage drinkers, Bridge reports. Keg sales plummeted, but students turned from 10-proof beer to 80-proof vodka because of less intrusive restrictions on the sale of hard liquor.
University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel, who wants the keg law eliminated, acknowledges that it's hard to get students to stop drinking all together.
“It’s very difficult to drink enough beer to become toxic,” he tells Bridge. “It isn’t difficult to drink enough vodka to get toxic.”.
A bill to kill the keg law has passed the state Senate and is pending before the House.
