Binge Drinking

Last week we watched a film called Haze in class. It was about both the hazing that goes on in fraternities, and sororities as well as binge drinking. There were some clips that were very disturbing to me. Some of these kids were so messed up they were doing the dumbest things, and making a complete fool out of themselves. It is no secret that college students and for that matter, high school students, drink to get drunk. I am pretty positive that this problem is never going to come to a complete halt. There have been a number of colleges that have tried the “dry campus” approach to try and cope with all of the binge drinking, however we all know there is no such thing as a dry campus. If kids want to get drunk, there is not much that can stop them. I think the best way to stop the binge drinking is to lower the drinking age. No, I don’t believe that it should be 18; I think it should be 19. The reason being, at a college campus, I would say majority of the students drink on a regular basis, or have had a drink before. It should be 19, because on a college campus the police cannot enforce the underage drinking law all that well. If they could or did, half the students would be arrested. If you cannot police the drinking age, what is the point of having one. I disagree with the argument of 18, because I am 18 and so is the vast majority of my grade. High school students should not be able to buy and drink alcohol. If seniors in high school could, then all of the grades below us would have easy access to alcohol and that is a disaster waiting to happen. All in all, binge drinking a huge problem, and if the problem continues I believe something has got to change.