Binge Drinking Should Be Allowed In College

Recently, many colleges were faced a lot of criticisms about binge drinking among who agrees and disagrees. Binge drinking is a dialectic problem because some people look at it as a unimportant problem whereas others look at it as a big problem that needs to be solved. Harvard Professor Henry Wechsler, in his article (1997) " Binge Drinking Must be Stopped " discusses that binge drinking is a serious problem that affects college students and some students have died. Wechsler supports his claim by providing some statistics of the consequences of binge drinking around universities campuses. In another article, "Stop Babysitting College Students" Forma Harrop is an Editorial and Columnist for the Providence Journal. Harrop discusses that binge drinking is not that great problem to be stopped at all. Harrop develops her claim by explaining the both sides. Binge drinking is not good for college students whether it is done responsible or not. And most college students does not know the real meaning of the word responsibility. In this essay, I will explore the arguments concerned with binge drinking by presenting two …show more content…
One of the problem that Wechsler has mentioned was colleges do not do anything to stop binge drinking. However, Wechsler (1997) argues the college “A conversation with the chief of security could easily reveal where the binge drinking takes place and which students, fraternities, and alcohol outlets are violating college rules or local ordinances.” (p. 31). Many students were died from binge drinking and the full responsibility for the safety of students is one of the necessities of the university. According to Wechsler, parents are paying the tuition and one of their rights is to make a good environment for studying and the college responsible for that. Binge drinking need to bring more attention about