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What are they thinking?

Comment a comment by Ares Craft[Censored] (EyeOfSage), published on 21 August 2008
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Okay, two major reason why college kids drink under 21. Or so I think…

1. The school doesn’t try to stop it.

What I mean by that is: Yeah sure the school prohibits alcohol in the dormitory, but they don’t care what happens outside[in the frat house party for example]. Therefore, the school should then take actions and make the fraternity and sorority houses as part of campus property. Stopping alcohol at one of its main source and will largely decrease the chance of a student finding alcohol.

2. The whole American Culture somehow indirectly encourage the consumption of alcohol as a essential part of socializing in the norm. And with generic media movies keep portraying colleges with alcohol and sex, no wonder incoming students think college is all about these kind of stuff.

And don’t blame it on the school work either. School work is annoying, not depressing. Therefore alcohol consumption due to depression is not a valid excuse. So schools should stop making excuses, spend a little money, and fix their school.

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RE: What are they thinking? by Anonymous :: NR0

We send our men to war at 19 therefore they are fully grow up men. To say that they are not and to deny them alcohol for that reason is ridiculous. We are asking them to kill for us and if they are not yet mature we shouldn’t be doing that.
Most other countries recognise this and have a drinking age of 18 without serious problems. There will always be some binge drinking among the immature but I don’t believe that it is in the epidemic proportions that we are led to believe, or that it would be any worse if the legal starting age was lower.
Prohibition is usually poor policy. If this is really a problem then it needs a social solution rather than a legal one.

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