Graff and Birkenstein Ex 1

In the article “Keep the Drinking Age at 21,” Robert A. Corrigan argues that there are less overall deaths with the drinking age being higher. In the college atmosphere many students choose to drink, and the major path towards making bad choices is too much alcohol. Corrigan emphasizes that changing the legal drinking age from 21 to 18, is going to increase the number of accidents in vehicles. He claims that students have to deal with visiting the ER while in college frequently, because their friends are there due to alcohol related issues.
In my opinion, however the concern doesn’t come into play because alcohol is the problem, there are other factors that are causing the issue. While it is true that there are students having to go to the ER, this has to do with the fact that students want to rebel. Take away the temptation and it will no longer be exciting for kids. For example in Germany, and other foreign countries there is no drinking age, and these countries aren’t having half the amount of issues we are. Telling kids they can’t do something only gives them the drive to want to do it more.