Drink With Your Parents Weekend

As you all know it was Junior Parents Weekend or as I like to call it "Drink With Your Parents Weekend." This weekend is officially set by the school but does the school even know the purpose of the weekend? Do they know that it is mainly put there for students to take their parents out to "relive" the college life again? It would be interesting to see what the private Catholic school would think of it if they actually knew what went on during this event.

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There were Facebook events made for beer pong tournaments with their parents and I heard from many people that there were plenty of drunk parents walking around Willamette late night Friday and Saturday. I even had the privilege of actually interacting with some of these parents that were out with their kids. It was a toga party this weekend and I was walking around saying hi to my friends when...OH HEY PARENTS IN TOGAS! It was a little uncomfortable to say the least.  I can understand having a get together with your close friends and parents..but having a couple parents at a HUGE party with UP students..kind of interesting.

I asked one of my friends what her impression of Junior Parents Weekend was and she said  "I think that it's to have your parents meet your friends and their parents since they hear about your friends but never get to meet them like in high school." I am not against the idea of junior parents weekend what so ever. But there have been many discussions as to whether this weekend is appropriate or not.  All of this leads to the idea of whether or not drinking with your parents is appropriate or not. We all know that it happens, and being 21 is a different story, but drinking with your underage child? Is this smart? I found an article in TIME called Should You Drink With Your Kids? I know that before I turned 21 I was not able to "get drunk" with my parents.  I was allowed the occasional drink here and there with dinner and on special occasions but it was not until I turned 21 that it was seen as acceptable. There were plenty of parents in my high school who also got in trouble for providing alcohol to minors at parties. It was interesting because one of the parties in which the parents were in trouble, they did not even provide the alcohol but because they were under the same roof as us and let it happen, they suffered the consequences.

I found a couple of interesting articles on parents being arrested for providing alcohol for minors.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276178,00.html

http://dothanfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=133307

http://www.centurycouncil.org/stop-underage-drinking/initiatives/wedontserveteens

Overall, I just find the whole idea of Junior Parents Weekend very interesting.  I am sure that it is not Drink With Your Parents Weekend for every student that goes to UP but it is definitely a main attraction.