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August 19, 2008
Sense on College Drinking - lower the drinking age to 18
College presidents from more than 100 schools across the country are calling on lawmakers to do something about binge drinking: Consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18."Twenty-one is not working," says the group's statement, signed by presidents from prominent colleges such as Dartmouth, Duke and Syracuse. "A culture of dangerous, clandestine 'binge drinking' - often conducted off-campus - has developed."
I agree entirely. The current binge drinking culture was created by the 21 year drinking age. Lower the drinking age, reopen serious campus pubs, strictly enforce public drunkenness laws on campus - that's my prescription. But then I'm just a professor.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at August 19, 2008 8:37 AM