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BOSTON ? When Franklin Meanwhile,
Zimring, a law professor at the college soph
University of Chicago, was 13 sued his fathe
I years old he went through the support, desf
Jewish rite of passage called a bar was 19 years c
mitzvah. Now, in
"On that day I became a man," Supreme Cou
he says, and then adds ruefully, whether a mil
"but the next week at Sunday of her parent*
school they still took my at- in Massachu:
tendance." state legisla
The point he was making was a whether 18-ye
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there's no single threshold birthday
to adulthood, no benchmark These issue
that separates the child from the they all stru
grown-up. In fact, the laws, the problem: t
attitudes and court actions Rr an<
governing the transition, could ,ine between
come right out of the verse from grown-up.
"Chorus Line": Adolesc...it's a
mess. The fact is
1 think of that as I leaf through what some c
r some of the news stories sitting on wildly indefi
? my desk. This month in range from 1
r Mississippi, for example, a 14- typified by so
year-old boy was tried as an adult autonomy.
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signed, of the senior editorial staff. I trip?
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series. He was sen- Brenzel, a professor
years in jail before and socia, H a
e reopened the case.
in Pittsburgh, a College, says that,
lomore successfully increasing age of sei
r for monthly "child" when we're held aw;
rite the fact that he work place by law or
>ld, a voting adult. reality, and held
Washington, the marriage by economii
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setts and elsewhere d^ndentH ?,ur
tures are debating shelter and therefore
ar-olds should still be akln?' we re on
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s are all different, yet
iggle with the same laws that deal with
he age of adult autonomy, that dea
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uic ciiuu anu me v...iupan?nuiMcauui
Both she and Zimr
that the piecemeal,
that adolescence, or flicting, approach to f
-all youth, is now a on adolescence may be
nite time that can Zimringputs it: "Any |
3 to 20 or older. It's js not eclectic is rid'c
mething called semi- notion of a national 1
Historian Barbara could be less rational,
Everyone has ex[
LJ W CI 1 desire to do something
which may precede ov
. -i The campaign stri
^nortpn other candidates are
;rUi of typical attitudes
frequently assimilate
having been conscious
r; use of getting attei
apathetic voter
riting this letter in credibility in arh
the attributes of Dick interest. Judging by
is running lor Student tne Gamecock on ]
entatUSC. displays intelligence
for certain issues facii
lat by his thought- this would be a goo<
arousal to student's Student Government,
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immick, he exhibits Susan N. Roberts
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by economic allowed to have an at
apart from without that consent, even
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lescence, the semi-autonomy. If you j
tpart." adolescence, as Zimring dc
the learner's permit period
ing suggest the question isn't how old
even con- enough to drink or drive.
>ublic policy proper question," he says, "
i the best. As old is old enough to start to le
policy which Phased-in laws make a
ulous." The deal of sense. The federa
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ntion to the ?^>day, Mf,rch ? Pl
gives him Holderman will speak to a |
ct..swt international businessmen
his letter hi *1* ""SC - Window
March 7 hP World." President Anwai
and concern will visit USC in M
icUSC I feel prestigious international
i change for association has chosen oui
as its national headquarter
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window through which w<
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toe the benchmark. Now, for my shot
on ? the question that will decide ofm
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hat will determine my vacation Ai
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es one 21. A law which allows people to
drink only wine and beer first ?
roach, perhaps even the old 3.2 beer ?
onable mav be a sound idea. A law which
jgnant makes a distinction between
>uld be drinking in a bar and buying in a
>ortion package store is another phase-in
if she alternative.
ctomy They make more sense than the
mable, artificial "rationality" of setting 18
es we as the age to drink, drive and get
selves drafted.
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s of 18. life defined by inconsistency it's
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iminal adulthood, and we may need laws
as flexible, protective and gradual
t area as the process of maturing.
about As Zimring suggests, "It may be
regard that the only thing the law can do is
kjs, as what adolescence does. Which is,
of life, at best, to muddle through."
is old How adolescence grew to
"The become this long period of mudis
how dling through is the subject of my
arn." next column.
great
1 gun- ?1979, The Boston Qlobe Newspaper Com.0
OWn pany/Washlngton Post Writers Group
;uns at
nsive cartoons
Mexicans are lazy and reference to
gas caused by Mexican food is in
resident very poor taste even if true. Is this
group of the editorial statement of the
on the Gamecock during International
to the Student Week? What statements
- Sadat could have put down Black History
ay. A Week and how will the editors
studies comment on Arab-Israeli
* school problems when President Sadat
s. Is the visits? Please, no more insulting,
h 7 the offensive cartoons.
e look?
ler the Harry Pipkin
e that Masters in International Business
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output room?
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per: Somebody clean up that mess. BMOC,
re the lucky confuser. You and your Data
le show host, namely I, myself and me, are
ig to Pago Pago, Newark and Inner
igolia together. But, for the record, there
E?r has been and never will be any sexual
tionships or relationships of any kind,
it, BMOC?
)C: Anything you say, Sugar. But
ember that night...
\ they cut to a commercial, the viewer
jely hears the Data game director
iting, "Someone please take that BMOC out
y studio!"
id, they did.