This is the letter I sent to my College President to inform him on the issue.
Here is a link to his contact info.
Office of the President Stevenson University
1525 Greenspring
Valley Rd.
Stevenson,
Maryland
21153-0641
To the President
of Stevenson University,
I
am writing to you to today to bring up an issue that has most likely come to
your attention in the past, underage drinking.
It’s a pretty well known subject especially at University’s. I, as a freshman at Stevenson University,
want to help change the issue and I’m hoping you will help me. As known, the current drinking age is 21 but
there are various reasons as to why this should be lowered. It can stop excessive drinking as well as
provide a safer environment.
Lowering
the drinking age could actually help prevent the amount of drinking done with
18 to 20 year olds. Young adults tend to
be rebellious; therefore they are more tempted to do things that they aren’t
supposed to. Drinking is defiantly one
of those things. If we lower the dinking
age then drinking will become less tempting because they are allowed to do
it. Also the quantities in which they
consume it at once can lower as well.
This age group doesn’t know the next time they will get alcohol so they
try to consume as much as they can at once.
This is why there are so many incidents where teens overdose on
alcohol. Lowering the drinking age to 18
will prevent this because they will no longer feel the need to excessively
drink because they can always obtain it legally.
Not
only will lowering the drinking age help lower drinking problems but also it
will provide a safer environment.
Underage drinkers cannot drink in public so they have secret parties in
secluded areas where it’s hard to authority to get to. This is dangerous because if a problem occurs,
or it is a life or death situation, it’s hard for help to get there in time
because the area is so secluded. Worst
they may not even call for help because they don’t want to get into trouble so
they just try to handle the situation by themselves. Lowering the drinking age will allow 18 and
older groups to drink in public, which will allow them to be monitored
properly. Also with 18 and older groups
being allowed to have access to alcohol, it can provide more jobs such as
bartending. Also the school could sell
alcohol, which can bring in more money for the school.
With
this information I hope you take in consideration on supporting this act. Many other presidents of colleges have agreed
that lowering the drinking age will benefit college safety. There is a group they have organized if you
are interested and I have attached the link at the bottom. If you do support this act this a great way
to show your support. Thank you for your
time.
Sincerely,
Whitney McClain
Works
Cited
Maher, Ryan. "Lowering Drinking Age
(Economic Benefits)." Searching About
Something.
Ed. Ryan Maher. Ryan Mah, 2 May 2012. Web. 6 Nov. 2013.
<http://searchingfsomething.blogspot.com/2012/05/
lowering-drinking-age-economic-benefit.html>.
Cognac.com.
Cognac, 2013. Web. 6 Nov. 2013. <http://www.cognac.com/
15-reasons-why-drinking-age-should-be-18/>.
"Drinking Age." ProCon.org.
ProCon.org, 18 Mar. 2011. Web. 10 Nov. 2013.
<http://drinkingage.procon.org>.
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