This drink is on me

God bless our college presidents!

Well, wait..not so fast. If you’ve kept up with your reading lately, you’ll have noticed that more than 100 university presidents have signed off on a petition to bring the drinking age from 21 to 18. IU president McRobbie has said he would support it, while our illustrious leader at BSU, Jo Ann Gora, has said he is opposed to it. I never thought I would say, or write this but I’m siding with Gora on this one…go ahead, someone punch me, shoot me, tie me up in a bag and dump my body in the nearest creek next to that rubber Big Foot.

I’m all for lowering the drinking age..but for the right reasons. Let’s say you want it lowered because people 18 are already allowed to vote, fight in a war and be prosecuted like an adult. That’s good reasoning. The college presidents are saying they want it lowered to prevent binge drinking at their campuses. That’s NOT good reasoning. Obviously they didn’t attend college during the last six years, but luckily for their sakes, I have. So who better to know what would curvetail binge drinking?. Me you silly rabbit.

First of all, everyone binge drinks in college. It’s a deep, deep part of the culture now. Sometimes you just become an alcoholic and then you don’t have worry about binge drinking on the weekends. But for the rest of us, there was that one night per week where we got sloshed, bombed, monkey drenched and violated by beer. The college presidents are taking an extremely easy way out on this by blaming binge drinking on the age law. This is much bigger than that. Second, when my friends and I all turned 21, the binge drinking didn’t stop, it got even worse (better in my opinion, but hey, I’m not a saint!). We did it more because there was no chance of us getting arrested for being underage. The college presidents who signed off on this are looking for the easy way out. Don’t let them fool you that they’re doing this for the right reasons.

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