Drinking in College

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I agree with the stance taken on by these college presidents. They see first-hand the damage done by setting the drinking age of 21. Their only interest is keeping their campus safe. With the drinking age being so high you see an increase in underage drinking, because only about half of the student body is of legal drinking age. With the underage drinkers you find they are less likely to take the proper precautions necessary when drinking because they have a fear of being found out or because they don’t have the proper experience with what to you should do after a night of drinking. 

If the drinking age was lowered to 18 most of these problems would be eliminated. The sheer task of enforcing this law is impossible on a campus. Chief of police in Boulder Colorado, Mark Beckner, says "We're not in a situation where we can stop it. The best we can do is try to contain it". Beckner says that he would rather have the drinking age lower so they could focus on more important aspects of protecting the campus. Even through serious crackdowns they saw no difference in the amount of underage drinking, just how far underground it had been pushed.

With a lower drinking age would come better decision making from younger drinkers. It would allow 18 year-olds the opportunity to be safer about their drinking. If there was a lower drinking age teens would be able to drink in a responsible way and make smart decisions without fear of repercussions from the law. A drinking age of 18 is the only safe option for college campuses.