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
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