Binge Drinking is prevalent on campus, Road Rage makes our highways dangerous, and Urban Sprawl is spreading throughout America. College students drink, often with the express goal of getting drunk. Some drivers lose their temper on the road.
Most people prefer the suburbs to the city.
Both paragraphs say the exact same thing - The only difference is the wording. The first paragraph is designed to raise the ire and concern of many, especially the easily manipulated. Activists, politicians and other miscreants have always gathered support for unneeded and invasive laws by repackaging the same old whine in new bottles. Kids drink, especially in college. The only difference between them drinking now and drinking twenty or thirty or fifty years ago is the ill-conceived 21 year drinking age.