Pros And Cons Of Underage Drinking

The True Cost to Underage Drinking Unsupervised, underage drinking is a growing epidemic within the United States. However, there is another growing epidemic that seems to be larger than underage drinking: unreported sexual assaults. The amount of people being sexually assaulted are growing every single year and the percentages given out about these assaults do not correlate to exactly how many people get assaulted. The amount of money State College and Penn State invests into the investigation of underage drinking is ridiculously high and could be used towards other needed problems such as sexual harassment and stalking that occur within the campus.
As college students, alcohol is just a common and abused drug throughout campus. Drinking plays a big role in college party scenes as well as tailgating. Most freshmen, sophomores and juniors who fall under the age of 21 will still drink because alcohol is present. In addition, this age group would feel pressured to drink in order to be “cool,” to have a good time or to impress someone. Because of reasons such as this, State College and Penn State invest so much money and
Although underage drinking is illegal, sexual assault could lead to lower self-esteems, dissociations, eating and sleeping disorders, pregnancy and even suicide. Someone could refute that by catching underage drinkers there could be less sexual assaults. By cutting down on drinking, we could prevent some sexual assaults; however there are many more sexual assaults that are not caused from alcohol, but rather from other purposes such as revenge or other psychological reasons. In addition, when the Penn State alerts that all the students get from a crime especially about a stalking or sexual assault, it is never in East Halls; therefore it could be safely said that underage drinking is not an effect or a gateway to sexual