Friday, December 5, 2008

Tonight I was listening to an interview, that my mom asked me to watch about underage drinking. Her intent was to scare me about drinking and driving but I got a bigger and more helpful idea from this radio interview. These ladies and mother's of college students were irate at the fact that some college staff was promoting a law that would decrease the drinking age to 18 years old. Instead of listening to them jabber on and on about how the colleges were only trying to decrease legal liabilities they face and not the well being of their children, I searched for the interview where a college chairman was telling us how we should consider the benefits of a younger alcohol consumption age in the atmosphere of a college campus.

The stream got all screwed up and stopped working, so I couldn't listen to the rest of his explanation and position, but I think I would rather do this than my previous ideas. The other ones are kind of typical, and I feel like I could find many papers discussing those issues that would similarly imitate my paper. I haven't heard much about the controversy over this law, but I believe it to be interesting and it is a little bit more relevant to my life considering I will be 18 in less that two years and hopefully attending a college.

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