LAWRENCE, Kan. – Closing time on Massachusetts in downtown Lawrence is always a time of laughter, memories and drunkenness. Hundred of students pour out of the bars at 2 a.m. on Mass. after consuming a few alcoholic beverages of choice. The only problem with this picture is that some of these people partaking in this Lawrence ritual are not of the legal drinking age.
How are they able to get into the bars, you ask? “Fakes are so easy to get around Lawrence,” says Mace May, Springhill, KS. “All you have to do is just ask around. Everyone knows someone.” Once you have a fake though, it may not be as easy as you think to get into your favorite bars. “My boyfriend is 23 and he gets asked all the time for a second form of I.D., especially at Abe and Jakes and The Jazz House,” says Ashley Ruzick, Lenexa, Senior. Its seems to be a general consensus on Mass St. that it is much more difficult for guys to get into bars than it is for girls, no matter what bar you go to. People are always going to try to beat the system. “There is never going to be a stop to using fakes until they get police officers to start working the doors.” says May.