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 pledges from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Louisiana State University died after nights of binge drinking. Scott Kruegen, 18, of Orchard Park, N.Y., died three days after he was discovered in his basement room at the phi Gamma Delta house at MIT. Benjamin Smith, 20, of Covington, La., died from "acute alcohol poisoning" after a drinking binge at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house in Baton Rouge, La (Harper). I believe that if the drinking age is lowered then the students that are now underage will not feel as if they have to go on drinking binges and seriously endanger themselves. All of these reasons add to the argument of the people and organizations that believe that lowering the drinking age is a good idea. Sheila Ahern is a journalism junior at Marquette University that recently turned 21 and wrote about her college experiences and view in the Tribune, the Marquette University newspaper. Ahern...
