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This debate is all over television and the internets. Should the drinking age on college campuses be:
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| lowered to 18 | stay at 21 | |
 - college & university presidents from all over the country are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age on college campuses from 21 to 18 - these college & university presidents are backing the amehtyst initiative & saying current drinking laws encourage binge drinking on college campuses - drunk 18 yr, old kids means more people to write on and f%ck with when they pass out! - The educators contend that the higher drinking age has driven alcohol consumption underground and contributed to a campus culture that encourages dangerous "binge drinking" aka doing what XvsY did once...freshman, college, 1 shot every 12 seconds. End of the night - 17/18 yr old kids passed out in every which direction & location. - In fact, Wechsler (that harvard dude) said, his research found that colleges with strict regulations concerning alcohol tend to have lower rates of binge drinking. - Proponents of reducing the drinking age have cited European countries, where the drinking ages are lower, for having less binge drinking problems. YO. what do you think? Go put your funny, your thought, your words of wisdom in The Peanut Gallery |
 - here's the full list of schools that want to lower the drinking age... - Dr. Henry Wechsler, a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, called proposals to lower the drinking age akin to "pouring gasoline to put the fire out" when the drinking age was lower in the 1970s, deaths among 18- to 20-year-olds in traffic fatalities went up by about 800 a year..." - keeping the age 21 means RAs can still roam dorm halls and bust people for underage drinking. come on, you don't want to ruin their fun now do you? - MADD is MAD at this suggestion of lowering the age. they say, lowering the drinking age would lead to more fatal car crashes - Wechsler (that harvard dude again) said thatr ecently Britain and Ireland (where the drinking age is lower), for example, have been confronted with an epidemic of binge drinking. - watch the ABC news story HERE! dude, a lot of these peoples look 21 - hey, put down that beer! you got something to say on this topic? well then ponch, go to The Peanut Gallery and let the world know what yer thinking. |
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