Drinking Deaths Draw Attention to Old Campus Problem
4. Students are completely responsible for the amount of drinking that goes on and around colleges. It's impossible to change anyone unless they want to change themselves. If they are the ones binge drinking then they are the ones responsible. The best people for students to listen to are students themselves. It's easy for a student to just ignore an assembly on underage drinking than it is to ignore a friend. It would be best to find advocates at the University of Colorado that are also students and train them to go out and try to persuade others to be careful. The school itself can enforce Police patrol. The more parties found out about and broken up, the less likely it will be for alcohol poisoning to occur.
Thesis: Binge drinking is occurring at colleges and universities. This drinking is causing deaths to occur due to alcohol poisoning and its very hard to convince students to stop.
"Brian Lane, 22, who stopped at the store on a Friday morning to buy an 18-pack of beer or himself and friends that night, said that his own drinking had decreased from when he was a freshman and that more restrictions would not solve the problem... 'I think its more individual responsibility,'"
I completely agree with every point you made in this blog entry. I love it when you said "The best people for students to listen to are students themselves. It's easy for a student to just ignore an assembly on underage drinking than it is to ignore a friend. It would be best to find advocates at the University of Colorado that are also students and train them to go out and try to persuade others to be careful." That's a great idea. You are right when we go to assemblies we sometimes don't take things seriously. I would deff listen to a friend than a stranger. (I don't drink though so this doesn't really apply to me) I feel like other people would take advice from their own friends than from strangers.
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