Hi, Ed, I’m responding to the reader who criticized the parents of The College of New Jersey student who died after heavy drinking and now they are suing the school. Colleges should not allow students to drink on campus, and if the students drink, they should be expelled. If they need to drink, go home and drink, but not on school grounds. They’re in college to study and become our future leaders.

Temperance

I’m trying to follow you here. So the school should have expelled him before he died, and therefore the parents have a right to sue? Anyway, I’ll file your no-college-drinking sentiments in the “hopeless idealism” category.—Ed. Note