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McCardell drinking campaign growing
Ryan Hayner
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: News
Originally published: 4/26/07 at 6:01 PM EST
Last update: 4/26/07 at 6:01 PM EST
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The program will be framed differently than current available alcohol-education courses, he said, in that, upon completion, 18-to-20-year-olds will have the chance to actually drink legally.
Guenther said Choose Responsibility does not believe lowering the possible drinking age will increase health problems, but rather decrease them because of students' education on the effects of alcohol.
"The percentage of college students using alcohol is not much different than when the drinking age was 18," Guenther said. "People are drinking for the purpose to get drunk."
"After the education course, students will realize how dangerous alcohol is," he said. "We want to create proper moderate drinkers."
There is yet to be a solid example of this though, Guenther said, since "responsible drinking cannot be modeled by underage drinkers."
Some PSUC students believe Choose Responsibility has a good argument, but the best way to show efficiency is by example.
"People are going to assume this is a bad idea because underage drinking causes a lot of problems," PSUC freshman Ryan Mau said. "But if under-21 year olds have knowledge of how to drink alcohol and react in a bad situation, this kind of program could save many lives."
Guenther said he expects for the media attention to die out soon and allow the organization to build up more of an argument, with more supporters and more resources.
"It is likely we'll be thrown off the news cycle and be able to reanalyze and formulate a plan to push the movement forward and influence the political bodies in this country," he said.
Guenther said Choose Responsibility does not believe lowering the possible drinking age will increase health problems, but rather decrease them because of students' education on the effects of alcohol.
"The percentage of college students using alcohol is not much different than when the drinking age was 18," Guenther said. "People are drinking for the purpose to get drunk."
"After the education course, students will realize how dangerous alcohol is," he said. "We want to create proper moderate drinkers."
There is yet to be a solid example of this though, Guenther said, since "responsible drinking cannot be modeled by underage drinkers."
Some PSUC students believe Choose Responsibility has a good argument, but the best way to show efficiency is by example.
"People are going to assume this is a bad idea because underage drinking causes a lot of problems," PSUC freshman Ryan Mau said. "But if under-21 year olds have knowledge of how to drink alcohol and react in a bad situation, this kind of program could save many lives."
Guenther said he expects for the media attention to die out soon and allow the organization to build up more of an argument, with more supporters and more resources.
"It is likely we'll be thrown off the news cycle and be able to reanalyze and formulate a plan to push the movement forward and influence the political bodies in this country," he said.
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