Why not just let your RA know that you’ll be drinking so he or she can alert the campus police and you just drop 30 bucks on their desk?

Parking ticket at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: $20. Possession of drug paraphernalia: $315. Smoke detector tampering: $500.

The look on my face when I heard that anyone caught ages 16 or younger drinking at the dorms would get a $30 fine…priceless.

The Sandburg dorms have a brand new policy about drinking. When you aren’t even a senior in high school, and get caught drinking at the UWM dorms you get a $30 fine.

Why not just let your RA know that you’ll be drinking so he or she can alert the campus police and you just drop 30 bucks on their desk and say, “Hey, my younger brother is coming over tonight and I plan on getting him hammered.”

The officials here are basically saying that it only costs $30 to drink here, which is less than the cost of a bottle of Baileys.

Frankly, it’s wrong to send a message of that caliber to kids that age, and yes, legally, they are kids.

Is that really helping our state’s reputation as it tops the nation in high school drinking?

The fines outside of UWM are higher than that, double or triple at least, and when a minor finally gets one then maybe they will be careful about their surroundings.

The reason why the drinking age is 21 and not 18 is because our brain is not quite done developing. Someone under the age of 16 isn’t even close.

So to stop the abuse, wouldn’t the powers want to make the consequences far more severe than just $10 above parking in the wrong spot? Maybe even switch this fine around.

But I’m not going to complain about the drinking age, just the fine.

I certainly don’t want to see UWM responsible for adding to the already rising death rate of high school students due to drinking, because we all know how well 16-year-olds handle their booze.

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