"How Bingeing Became The New College Sport"

     In the essay "How Bingeing Became The New College Sport" by Barrett Seaman, Seaman argues the cons about having an over twenty-one drinking age limit, and how it would benefit our society to reduce that age. He talks about how most accidents happen due to the restrain on college students and not being able to drink legally in public. If the legal drinking age were to be eighteen than many students wouldn't find the necessity to get drunk behind doors and then go out, which will result in less accidents. Since students are forcing themselves to over drink in dorm rooms because they can not drink in public more accidents and even deaths have resulted in the over consumpiton of alchol. Seaman argues that "tighter enforecement of the minnimum drinking age of 21 is not the solution. It is the problem." (491) Students are already drinking and especially in a college enviroment that instead of restricting them which only makes students want to drink more, we should allow them to drink so that they can do so responsibly.

     I really liked this essay I thought that Seaman made a good argument. I do agree with what he is talking about. Being part of the college environment I definitely see a lot of fellow friends and students "bingeing" or "pre-gaming" because they cannot legally drink. I think that it would be a good idea since young students are doing it any way. Its easy to see why it would be a good law to pass if you are in college, you are already exposed to an older crowd of people/students. At the same time you wouldn't want to bump into eighteen year olds who can act immature at a bar. Maturity has a big part in what the legal drinking age should be, because it depends on the individuals.