College Parties and Social Power

The college party scene has no doubt become one of the largest party locations in any environment. Sometimes thousands of kids, many of which are underage will be found any given night of the week stumbling around route one without a care in the world. Why is it that so many college students have remained a victim to the fake ID using, drunk late nights that drives the collegiate experience.
I can understand that after a long day of work or class one might want to get out of their house and suck down on a few beers, but the fact that many students will spend well over one hundred dollars on a small card that grants them access to their favorite bars in town. We have all heard of the fake ID’ and the shady business that is so precious in college towns. I would say that a minimum of 60 percent of all college students will be carrying a fake identification card with them when class starts on Monday. It is interesting to see how the government takes little action to actually address this issue.
The social power in this situation is across the nation. Fake ID’s will be taking over freshmen classes at any university and the students will continue to use it until they graduate. Frecerro emphasizes the idea of power relations to the masses and how the culture has adapted as a whole. If you look at the industry of Fake ID cards and how they are illegally used to gain access to night life locations of the underage children of today you will find the numbers to be overwhelming. The drinking age has changed many times in each state and most recently been set to a legal minimum of 21 years old. If you have people maturing and looking like they’re four to five years older then they actually are on average, the liquor locations have a large dilemma.
The cost to hire a law enforcement office and legally check each ID that is presented is far too expensive for the bar. They system is so advanced that a new freshmen can adjust to the nightlife in a matter of hours of talking to the right person. Get your fake and just act like nothing is wrong. A feeling of power over the bar owner, I’m not even 20 and I just got into your to drink for 21. The law does not look like it is going to change in the near future, so for the time being, the students have taken the law into their own hands
Students most of the times check the ID cards at the door and will very rarely reject a false ID card. The industry of underage drinking has adapted to a world of not just crime and illegal activity but almost a game for the masses. Each person is playing the role of himself or herself a few years older. It’s interesting to see how the social power does not need any altering of the actual law because it does not affect the students much anyway. They still get what they want and the government does not know the depth of the fake ID business.