Binge Drinking

Binge Drinking

My stance on Barrett Seasman's article "How Bingeing became the New College Sport" is that I disagree with his position with lowering the drinking age. Everyone knows that it is a problem. But by lowering the drinking age will not solve this problem. In his article he says that 300 times each year students die from alcohol poisoning. But he doesn't say if they are under age. Many students that are of age to drink alcohol also die from alcohol poisoning. They also die from drug overdoses, suicides, accidents and natural causes. College students die each and every day of the year from different causes, so should we try to fix those problems as well. Maybe we should, one way is for the parents to stay involved with their children that are still in school. The parents are a big part of this, just because they are not there doesn't mean that they can't help. They should talk with their children about alcohol and what it can do to you. And how to control and consume the alcohol, because let's face kids are going to drink when they are in college. So let's teach them as their parents to properly control and consume the alcohol.

I believe that 21 is the perfect age for drinking alcohol, if anything don't lower it maybe we should raise it to 25 because then the students would be more mature and drink more responsibly then they would at a younger age. If that doesn't work then maybe we should discipline them for their actions. Because they are know young adults, we think just because they are in college that we should go easy on them but that's B.S. If a kid under age that isn't in school gets caught with alcohol he goes to jail. So maybe we should do the same to the students. First time offence should be a large fine and some community service, and let's make them wear big yellow jump suits with the words of underage consumption on the back of it. The second time offence would result in expulsion. This would let the students know that we as adults our concerned with the kids binge drinking and the we are serious for it to stop or for them to face the consequences for their actions.