consider what one wants to do with the next four years of their life. One popular answer might

be, "One giant party!!". This notion is notable almost instantaneously once someone has

entered the college atmosphere. One could also note how easy it is to obtain the most popular

party favor, alcohol. And one could also point out where most of the alcohol is coming from,

fraternities. Fraternities are notorious for their drinking and partying and it's no surprise that

many of the people partying with them are minors who are illegally drinking at almost all of the

functions. This is a incredibly severe problem that needs fixing. Entering freshman who need to

focus on schoolwork are being constantly pressured to drink at parties where alcohol is readily

available. "College students who reported D and F [GPA's] averaged 9 drinks per

week..."(www.madd.org). The availability of alcohol to minors needs to be reduced

dramatically in order to help prevent many alcohol related accidents, allow new students to

focus on their schoolwork, and to stay in accordance with the law. Fraternities need to reduce

underage they receive two black X's on their hands. The same goes for parties thrown down

do to isolate minors from the legal ones is by merely asking age and then, if the person is

be eliminated by only allowing one drink per person who comes to up to the bar. However

the desire to be at these parties can be reduced dramatically since most people only go to

there is no limit to who can consume alcohol nor is there any type of regulation on how much

police went undercover at parties or at bars and randomly checked kids ID's to see if they

o minors so that they may present a positive, responsible image of

anyone can get it. Instead of keeping the beer out in the open, the alcohol must be placed

having someone older and very responsible to stand watch and help prevent drunken people

even this can't solve the entire problem by itself. There is still the problem of people washing

were of legal age(Patel 9). While it seems that this could really work the program hasn't been in

>From there on it's just a free-for-all drinkfest. Since the only way to identify minors is by the

both social situations with wristbands instead of a mark on the hand. Anyone over 21 receives

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