with a Playoff System?
The BCS Bowl series was first started in 1998. It was mad for the top two ranked college football teams in the NCAA for the national championship teams while other the other eight of the highest ranked teams play in the other bowl games. Many football fans argue that a playoff system should replace the BCS. The contend that its the only fair possible way to determine a national champion and that the BCS method is subjective, profit-motivated, and sometimes leaves the best teams out of the championship game. Fans argue that the BCS system is the best interest of athletes, fans and sponsors because the bowl games generate huge profits for the schools and their local economics, it keeps the season a lot shorter for the student athletes, and most of the time have the best two teams playing each other for the national title.
About 43% of Americans say that football is their sport to watch, more then three times then any other sport. In the year of 2008, about 37.5 million fans and college students attend college football games. About 120 colleges and universities compete in 34 post-season bowl games, and one of the schools wins the BCS national championship game each year.
In all 50 states in the United States have set their minimum drinking age to 21 although exceptions do exist on a state-by-state basis for drinking at home, under adult supervision for medical necessity, and other reasons.
Proponents of lowering the minimum legal drinking age from 21 argue that it has not stopped teen drinking, and has instead pushed underage binge drinking into private and less controlled environments, leading to more health and life-endangering behavior by teens.
Opponents of lowering the MLDA argue that teens have not yet reached an age where they can handle alcohol responsibly, and thus are more likely to harm or even kill themselves and others by drinking prior to 21. They contend that traffic fatalities decreased when the MLDA increased.
Study show that in the 1970s showing that teenage car accidents increased in states where the MLDA had been lowered from 21 prompted congress to pass the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. Although the Act says it did not require a national MLDA of 21, it effectively mandated it by stipulating that some federal transportations funds would be withheld from states that failed to make 21 their minimum age for purchasing and publicly possessing alcohol. Since 1984, all states that had previously lowered their MLDA from 21 have all raised their MLDA back to 21. South Dakota and Wyoming Were last states to do so in 1988.
The consumptions of alcohol by people under 21 is generally illegal across the United States, however, 45 states have set exceptions that allow underage consumption of alcohol in certain circumstances.
· Is a College Education Worth It?
The debate over whether a college education is worth it may have begun when the colonists arrived from Europe and founded New College in 1636. With 19.9 million US college students in 2013 and average student debt at over $26,500, the debate continues today.
People who argue that college is worth it contend that college graduates have higher employment rates, bigger salaries, and more work benefits than high school graduates. They say college graduates also have better interpersonal skills, live longer, have healthier children, and have proven their ability to achieve a major milestone.
People who argue that college is not worth it contend that the debt from college loans is too high and delays graduates from saving for retirement, buying a house, or getting married. They say many successful people never graduated from college and that many jobs, especially trades jobs, do not require college degrees.
