Take a Sunday morning stroll around the Pine Hills community in downtown Albany and you"ll likely encounter the wreckage of the previous night's partying. Keep your eye out for broken bottles as you make your way down Quail Street. Notice the scattered plastic cups and beer cans that mark the path, and the bleary-eyed coeds, with disheveled clothes and hurting heads, making the "walk of shame" home from an unplanned sexual encounter (vivid description). Alcohol-related social and recreational opportunities characterize the college experience: happy hour bonding with classmates, ladies night with the girls, and wine and cheese gatherings. Less often acknowledged is how drinking interferes with the academic character of the campus, the harmony of the neighborhood, and the health and safety of the entire community.
Now, here are some sobering facts. A survey performed in the year 2000, by the Core Institute, sampled 55,026 undergraduate students from 132 colleges across the US. 59% of the students surveyed were 20 years old and under. Of the total students surveyed, an astounding 84% reported using alcohol at least once in the year prior to the survey, and 72% within 30 days prior. Of the 32,175 students sampled who are under the age of 21, 82% admitted to using alcohol within a year prior to the survey, and 69% within the past 30 days! On average, per week, freshman and sophomore students drink over 5 drinks. That means that the average number of drinks that a minor is drinking a week is 5! Binge drinking, defined as five or more drinks in one sitting, has become a major problem on college campuses nation wide (definition). 46.5% of students sampled engaged in binge drinking at least once during the two weeks prior to the survey. .
Do I really need to go into great detail about the consequences of alcohol and binge drinking (rhetorical question)? It's one of the biggest problems among college students today.
Bar-Mitzvah Speech Good Morning Everyone! ... This new beginning brings with it many new responsibilities and obligations. One of the responsibilities that comes with being a Bar-Mitzvah is a strong devotion to my family, Torah studies, and serving Hashem. ... Now I would like to thank my grandparents from my mother's side for coming all the way from Israel for my Bar Mitzvah, and I hope to see them more often. ...
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I feel that if, as 18 year olds we are given the responsibility of adults, then we should also be given to option of whether or not we wish to consume alcohol. ... Some minors drink anyway and it is a parents responsibility to keep track of their child's behavior. ... We should be able to accept the responsibility of consuming beer and wine. ... College students (under 21) want to go to bars and drink. ... The only real resources needed would be beer bars, bars serving only beer and wine. ...
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Even though they despised it, most of the women in the bar had to sell their bodies after work to make enough money to live on. Prostitution became almost a routine for some of the girls in the bar. ... Women were subject to constant sexual harassment in bars and hotels but at the time it was considered normal, just a male instinct that society ignorantly accepted. ... The men in the novel seem to be bushrangers, circus owners, farmers or part of the police force and have the choice of dropping their family responsibilities. The women always had the set responsibility of raising children and c...
Due to the many responsibilities these students are expected to uphold as young adults they should also be able to legally drink alcohol. ... However a person of legal age is able to go to a bar drink, and then drive home. What would be the difference in an eighteen year old going to a bar and drinking and a 21 year old going to a bar and drinking? Persons of 18 and persons of 21 have almost identical responsibilities. A number of 18 and 21 year olds are students, with jobs who share the exact same responsibilities such as voting and going to war. ...
In this case the legality of drinking should be determined not by age, but rather maturity and ability to handle responsibility. ... If parents were given the chance to teach his or her child the responsibilities of drinking at a younger age, that child may grow up understanding and respecting the responsibilities of drinking. ... Eighteen year-old individuals can take on many adult responsibilities, but they do not have the right to consume alcohol. ... Although one may not have access to alcohol at a bar, but a student may be drinking at a party or may just have an older friend buy their ...
If citizens are to accept the responsibilities and duties of adults in the United States, then it seems reasonable that young people at age 18 should make their own decisions about the consumption of alcohol. ... Another point cited is that delaying the legal drinking age helps prevent young people from frequenting environments such as bars and nightclubs that encourage the use of alcohol." "76% of bars have sold alcohol to obviously intoxicated patrons, and about half of drivers arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI) or killed as alcohol-involved drivers in traffic crashes did the...
