Caught with a margarita at the same haunt, her sister Barbara pleaded no contest last week and will do eight hours of community service.
Chances are good that they're drinking too.
Boomer parents ought not to be too shocked. They whooped it up considerably more in their youths, according to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism records that document how, across every age group, we've become an ever more sober society over the past two decades. Often it is college administrators who have to deal directly with the most reckless imbibing. In an age in which campus officials are increasingly seen as proxy parents, this is worrying to them. One approach to reckless imbibing gaining currency among college administrators is unconventional and even counterintuitive.