Friday, September 12, 2008

fighting binge drinking

The current drinking age in the U.S. is 21 but in Germany is 18 and they are having problems with binge drinking. Some colleges in the U.S. are trying to crack down on drinking, some are having the janitors stop cleaning up the mess the students make and have the students clean up after them selves. and hopefully the students will find out that a kid with projectile vomit is not a nice thing to see. it has been proven that the "forbidden fruit" tastes better to a 19 year old but 15 year old are drinking more and more. but in colleges the drinking is not just limited to the elite colleges most state colleges have a problem. in Germany the drinking age thing is being hassled by mothers against drunk driving, they are trying to get the age back up to 21. John McCardle, the former president of Middlebury College, stated "Choose Responsibility" movement a couple of years ago, argues that other factors in the high way deaths that the mothers against drunk driving are trying to solve that some are from the reckless driving and from the not using of seat belts. in the past it seemed like it was pride to be able to hold your liquor but now it seems like they try and expel it. women with lower tolerances are even quicker to get sick. i think that if they do lower the drinking age to 18 more students will result in drinking. and things could go bad very quickly. i think more teen pregnancies will happen along with rise in STDs.

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