I would just like to say I love the front page story about changing the drinking age to 18. Just what we need, enlarge the ranks of those who can legally get wasted and make public displays of themselves.

Does anyone read the police blotter? How many times a week do you read, “…Charged with public intoxication?” At least having the law that requires us to be 21 can act as a deterrent.

I never understood how the college student is always portrayed as being strapped for cash, yet they are always able to afford beer and liquor. If I was making my budget, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at a bar spending $3-$5 on a beer — of which you can’t just have one — would be one of the first things I’d cut.

The comment, “They are going to drink anyway,” is frivolous. Speeders will speed. Should we remove the speed limits? Murders will murder. Should it be legal? Of course not. Laws are enacted in a society for the greater good. Few 18 or for that matter 21 year olds I know are “adults.”

The law is in place because with age comes wisdom. Wisdom to know when you have had enough. The wisdom to plan ahead and have a DD, the wisdom to not go out drinking when you have a class 8 in the morning. Also, as you mature, your body is better able to handle alcohol. As for me, I am 23 and I don’t drink.

In short, the best advice I have ever hear regarding drinking is this: “I think we have the most fun in the hours we can remember.”

Eduardo Boro is a junior in history