Wednesday, March 21, 2012

SWA #20


 I.              Introduction

·               By examining the minimum legal drinking age in the college environment we can see there is much debate if the current age of 21 is effective, this is significant because parents, university presidents, university students, and police officers all have unique perspectives on what needs to be done.

II.              Paragraph 1 Parents perspective

A.            Don’t want their college students drinking

B.             Information on automobile accidents

a.            Automobile accidents caused by alcohol have decrease since the MLDA was established
b.           Parents want the roads to be safer

C.             MADD

III.              Paragraph 2 Police Perspective

A.            Accident rate due to alcohol

B.             Mortality rate since the MLDA was first passed

C.             Colorado police chief example

a.     He is for the drinking age being changed
b.     Claims we are pushing drinking into more high risk situations

IV.              Paragraph 3 Students Perspective

A.            Self serving bias

a.     Believe that it should be changed because it would make their illegal acts illegal.
b.     Will drink more given the change in age.

B.             Serve in the army and vote example

C.             Drinking in high risk situations

D.            Rates of underage drinking on college campus

V.              Paragraph 4 College Presidents Perspective

A.            Amethyst initiative

a.     150 College Presidents
b.     Believe that the drinking age should be 18
c.     Believe in more alcohol education

B.             Drinking in private

C.             Upperclassman can buy and underclassmen cannot

VI.              Conclusion

A.            Restate thesis

B.             Reveal bias 

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