Dinking is legal and becoming an alcoholic is not what anyone wants to become, but there are many reasons why they become an alcoholic and therein lies the issue. It is the why that we must try to understand, not the how. Alcohol is everywhere and if someone wants to drink they will find a way and students are the same, they get a taste of adult life as they venture off to college and are forced to make choices that will shape the rest of their lives. lives in good and bad ways. What they still need is guidance, guidance to make the right decisions, even as they try to conform to the groups they think they want to be a part of. To summarize my response to this reading, I must conclude that Jack Hitt is correct that binge drinking is still very much alive on college campuses and still presents a very valid argument that it should be stopped. Where I disagree with this reading is that people will continue to binge no matter what. People are intelligent in many ways and if you show them the potential outcomes that drinking can lead them to, they are less likely to continue in this downward spiral that could have lasting effects on the rest of their lives and even on their loved ones.