PrepTest 82, Section 2, Question 1
Student: My university recently enacted new penalties for drinking alcohol in on-campus student housing. But the university has attempted to curb on-campus drinking many times in the past, and these attempts have never been successful. Thus, these new penalties are bound to be just as ineffective.
Student: My university recently enacted new penalties for drinking alcohol in on-campus student housing. But the university has attempted to curb on-campus drinking many times in the past, and these attempts have never been successful. Thus, these new penalties are bound to be just as ineffective.
Student: My university recently enacted new penalties for drinking alcohol in on-campus student housing. But the university has attempted to curb on-campus drinking many times in the past, and these attempts have never been successful. Thus, these new penalties are bound to be just as ineffective.
Student: My university recently enacted new penalties for drinking alcohol in on-campus student housing. But the university has attempted to curb on-campus drinking many times in the past, and these attempts have never been successful. Thus, these new penalties are bound to be just as ineffective.
The reasoning in the student's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
fails to specify what new penalties the university enacted for drinking alcohol in on-campus student housing
overlooks the possibility that many students did not drink alcohol in on-campus student housing even before the new penalties were enacted
presumes, without providing justification, that students' preferred location for drinking alcohol is on-campus student housing
overlooks the possibility that the new penalties are relevantly different from the university's past attempts to curb on-campus drinking
fails to consider whether the new penalties will have any other positive consequences besides reducing drinking in on-campus student housing
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