Author: MacKenzie Misel
A CBS news clip about people in Minnesota, (this video can be found a couple posting above this!) and lowering the drinking age. Individuals in this clip show both sides to this issue. I believe the kids and adults in favor of the change give good reason and feed back to why it should be changed.
however, here is the link to this webpage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yU3EOpmxc4
(video)
Would Lowering the Drinking Age Curb Bingeing on Campus.Scott Hensley, Health Blog talks briefly about why the drinking age should be lowered. This blog relates back to
my earlier post about college presidents being involved and for the change in the drinking age.
James F. Jones Jr. of Trinity College says, "“is counterproductive because it simply fosters this counterculture of binge drink
ing, which is epidemic at colleges.” I thin
k it becomes clear that certain people are going to be for this change and many against, a comment was made in the article that Who wants to go against Mothers Against Drunk Driving.. It just seems wrong but everyone needs to get their evidence straight and come to mutual decision. This blog has over 130 comments on this issue, I encourage all of our blog followers to check out the great discussion going on!
And yet... We have more college presidents, and advisors for the issue!
College Presidents Seek Lowering the Drinking Age. Associated Press. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,405766,00.html
If this doesn't grab your attention... I Don't know what will...(article)
"College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus."
Now we don't just have presidents from the smaller colleges.. I know f
or some small town people.. personal example, my parents small-town people and they had a lot of friends that drank and they simply said it was because they had noth
ing else to
do. Well now we have presidents of prestiges colleges, and you can say that they are not big colleges because THE OHIO STATE president has even spoken up, and even though I am a Gopher girl, and will be a gopher fan until the day I die. I believe that if the Ohio State President is speaking many other will. Ohio State is a great example of school full of great athletic programs and for those people that wanted to small town small college excuse.. Ohio State throws all of that out the window! I Ohio State is known for great athletics and it located in a big city, and they still want to drink and their president is still for lowering the drinking ag
e, So I think that tells you
something!
I encourage all our fellow blog followers who are against me on this topic to read this article, and I challenge you to a discussion on why this should be lowered! Bring on the arguing please :)
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