We're just making it more difficult to consume. With a campus located a considerable distance from the center of town, getting to a bar requires a car. This leaves us as a student body open to DUIs and accidents. Earlier editorials have advocated providing transportation between campus and downtown. While this is another solution offered by universities, this wouldn't be feasible.
Bars located on campus are common at larger schools and at universities in other countries.
But enforcing legal drinking laws in small towns is sometimes difficult. Personally, I don't favor either policy, or any other idea proposed by other schools. It just interests me that they have recognized the tendency of students to drink socially and attempted a solution that won't bring undue harm to their student body. I recognize the higher insurance risks and the fact that allowing drinking on campus would tarnish Berry's fine Christian heritage. It just seems harmful to the students to enforce these laws and ignore the negative results.