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When you turn the exciting age of 21, an automatic reaction you might have is to go out and buy alcohol all on your own. When you live on campus, however, that plan might be thrown off track due to Northwest being a 'dry campus,' one that does not allow alcoholic beverages on the premises. Students have posed the same question to each other throughout the years "Why is Northwest not a wet campus?"

"I think it's because the town is too conservative for that," student Kyle Greenlee said.

Other reasons floating around campus include Horace Mann Elementary being located in the middle of campus. Unfortunately, after being sent to multiple people, the administration building was unable to provide an answer for why Northwest is a dry campus.

Recently, an e-mail survey was sent out to students regarding whether or not university employees contracted to live on the campus should be allowed to have alcohol in their residences. The survey also touched on the topic of alcohol being present during tailgating in the campus parking lots. A partially-wet campus may not bode well for students and may even encourage underage drinking and alcohol in the residence halls.

"I just don't think that it's appropriate to allow people on campus to drink, but they have it so that students can't drink. I mean, as a freshman on campus I always had alcohol anyways, but it's just not right. How would they really enforce who is an employee and who isn't? I just think it's stupid," student Julie Loftin said.

Wet campuses in the area include the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, MO, and Stephen's College in Columbia, MO.

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