Campus drinking games, designed to prompt student alcohol consumption, happen. Indeed, one peculiar website offers a list of the “best” college drinking games, although reasonable persons might not accept that any drinking game could truly be good. Popular college drinking games apparently include drink-a-palooza, beer pong, drunk Jenga, and quarters. But who really knows, other than imbibing students who would probably prefer to conceal their drinking game preferences and alcohol consumption?

The Problems with Drinking Games

Drinking games do have campus consequences. The problems with drinking games include that they encourage underage students to imbibe in violation of school conduct codes. Drinking games also encourage party hosts who lawfully purchased the alcohol to unlawfully provide the alcohol to underage minor students. Fraternity and other campus organization contributions to student alcohol misconduct is a real concern on college and university campuses, leading to campus organization disciplinary charges. Drinking games also contribute to drunkenness, leading to uninhibited sexual forays, later regreted when sober. Sexual assaults on students passed out from drunkenness also occur on campuses.

School Alcohol Policies

Drinking games, we all know, still occur on university campuses, in part because relatively few campuses have outright alcohol prohibitions as they would for guns and illegal drugs. For example, Tulane University, ranked by some as the number one drinking or party school in the U.S., has a Code of Student Conduct that, like the codes at many other major universities, does not prohibit alcohol possession or consumption on campus. Tulane's code instead cautions students against mixing alcohol consumption with sexual conduct or claiming intoxication as a defense to other misconduct. The Student Code of Conduct at Florida State University, another highly ranked party school, also doesn't prohibit campus alcohol possession or campus, only illegal alcohol consumption by underage minors. One generally has to go to a religiously affiliated school to find an entirely or largely dry college campus.

Lax Enforcement?

One suspects from party school rankings that enforcement of drinking rules may be lax at some schools, especially those having high party school rankings. Indeed, Tulane University has a somewhat unusual Alcohol Policy that prohibits drinking games, prohibits drinking on campus by students under age twenty-one in violation of Louisiana law, but permits alcohol sale for campus consumption by approved vendors and organizations at approved university events. Twenty-one-year-old Tulane students, old enough to legally buy alcohol, can readily do so at school events right on campus. Louisiana law does not, by the way, outright prohibit drinking under the age of twenty-one. It instead limits the sale or other provision of alcohol to the minor's parents. The implication is that a lot of drinking does indeed go on at Tulane and other popular schools.

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