High school is over and it is your first time away form home, what are you going to do? The typical college student wants to party! Of the people that were surveyed over half believed that the legal drinking age should be lowered. [OKane 1] The legal age to drink in the United States is now 21 years old; college freshman, sophomores, and some juniors are not of the legal age to drink. This causes a problem on many campuses; several students are experiencing their first time away from parental care in a setting sinonomus with drinking and clubbing. Some feel pressure from family and friends to receive excellent grades while attending school, sometimes the pressure is too much and going out and getting wasted solves it. This happens all to often on college campuses, and it does happen here at Central Michigan University. Binge drinking is a major problem that needs to be solved, it not only affects your state of mind at the time of drinking but it can also control your way of life. 100% of women over the age of 21 believed that binge drinking was a problem on CMUs campus, 75% of males over 21, 84% of females under 21, and 42% of males under 21 also thought the same thing. [OKane 1] The amount of students that engage in binge drinking vary among campuses throughout the United States, from a low of one percent to a high of 70%. [Wechsler #1, 2] Many students may not know that they are participating in binge drinking while they are at the Pub or a house party. The actual definition of binge drinking is five drinks per night for a male and four drinks per night for a female. [Wechsler #1, 2] Many students might believe that only having four or five drinks a night does not make them a binge drinker, I know I dont like to think of myself as one but the definition says I am. According to our survey 70% of males under 21 and 53% of females under 21 are considered to be binge drinkers on the fact they drink over four or five dr...
