argues that college students are adults that are living away from parents for the first time in their lives and if they are told not to do something, that is exactly what they are going to do. Students at colleges are divided into two very distinct groups The Legal Drinkers and The Non-Legal Drinkers. If the legal drinking age were to be returned to the age of 18 then the non-legal drinkers would be able to get away from the fraternity houses and start hanging out with the legal drinkers at the local bars. I believe that Sheila has perfectly described what is happening at college campuses with the legal drinking remaining at 21. Other more forceful groups are also showing their position and pushing to change the law back to the age of 18 like it was in the 1980’s. The University of Kansas Student Senate passed a resolution on February 18, 1998 stating that the alcohol drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18. KU senators John Colbert and Sam Pierron introduced the legislation and said that their main goal is to gain support for their resolution at universities across the country. They believe that when the law changed from 18 to 21 society did not change with it, which makes the drinking age a joke. Pierron stated, "Drinking is still part of the college experience therefor the law criminalizes a normal action." The KU senators do not see any changes on the state level, but they are looking for a K-State senator and another school to sponsor their resolution in order to move upward (Miller). If other schools look into lowering the drinking age and start fighting for it like Kansas University is then this dream may just become a reality. National Public Radio’s Adam Hochberg reports from Chapel hill, North Carolina that some college officials are calling for the lowering of the legal drinking age. In his interview he talked with Bill Jordan who said that students have told him that they would drink less if they had the a...
