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In agreement with all of these people and groups are the underage students of these universities that feel rejected because they can not participate in what the rest of the older students on the campus are doing to enjoy themselves. There are also a few groups that are strongly opposed to lowering the drinking age such as Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (Advocates). Virginia Attorney General Richard Cullen posses a good argument that if the drinking age is lowered then it would be easier for people to obtain fake ID's if they only had to look like they were 18 years of age (Hochberg). Another bad idea for lowering the drinking age is because you may now start to get kids at the ages of 14 and 15 asking 18 year olds to purchase them alcohol so they can have a "good time". There are many other reasons as to why lowering the legal drinking age is being considered other then that students between the age of 18 and 20 on college campuses want the privilege to drink. More serious cases such as that of Mr. Cureton, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of North Carolina whom was arrested for driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.14. Mr. Cureton was almost double the legal limit, 0.08 percent, serving as a major hazard to other drivers on the road at the same time (Wald). If students are afraid of calling home for a ride they may try to drive themselves, resulting in more damage then they may realize at the time. But if the drinking age was lowered then they student would not get into legal trouble for calling a parent or another adult for a ride home. .
Fraternities seem to be having the most problems with the legal drinking age being at 21 as the Theta Chi chapter at the University of Georgia demonstrated last year. Henry Delauney, 19, of Lafayette, La., went into intensive care to be treated for "excessive alcohol consumption." Also a pledge from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Louisiana State University died after nights of binge drinking.