Binge Drinking

As a college student who started drinking alcohol when I was eighteen I can tell you that there is nothing that any college or university can do to stop college students from not drinking alcohol. College students are going to party and are going to drink alcohol that is just the average college students’ weekend life and experience. It is not the schools responsibility to control and monitor what students do off campus. As long as the drinking and the parties are not going on, on campus then the schools should not be held responsible for students drinking .alcohol

From my own personal experience when ever I would go out or go to a party first of all I would make sure either I had a designated driver to bring me home or I would make sure I would sleep over where ever the party was at. I would be responsible. I know that is illegal to drink alcohol before the age of twenty one but once again there is really little anyone can do to stop you from drinking. When I would drink I was able to realize when I had too much and was able to stop and still have a good time. You’re always going to have a few people who drink too much at a party and may get sick and throw up but in the long run that may make that person realize their limit and help them prevent that from happening again. How I would get my alcohol which was most of the time beer, was finding an older friend who was twenty one to buy it for me. I know that there are students out there who do have fake ID’s but now in today’s world it’s harder and harder to get an ID that looks real so I think most young students do what I use to do. In the essay “Binge Drinking Must Be Stopped” by Henry Wechsler he says that under age college students also go to local bars; I don’t think that is true at all because most younger students fear getting in trouble or getting kicked out and getting embarrassed in front of everyone there. Most under age drinking takes place at frat parties or regular house parties which are far away from campus. I find it hard to believe that anyone has ever been to any type of fun party that didn’t not involve some type of alcohol. Henry Wechsler also say that “An incoming freshmen learns during the first week of school where the alcohol and parties are”. Well that is because most incoming freshmen don’t know anyone on campus so they go to frat parties to meet people and make friends and I see nothing wrong with that. Drinking alcohol relaxes people and it becomes easier for them to talk to and make new friends. In my experience most drinking that I’ve been apart of was good clean fun. Just people hanging out playing games and laughing and having a good time, most parties don’t end with someone drinking too much and dying.

As for where the college’s and their administrators stand I don’t think that there is anything for them to do or anything they should do. It’s not their problem. Henry Wechsler says