Menstuff® has information on the push to Lower the Drinking
Age.
100 College Presidents Want
Your Kids to be able to Drink at
18
Why Kids
Choose Not to Drink
What
are College Presidents Thinking?
Should the drinking abe be 19? What
do you think?
College
presidents have gained ground
recently…
College
Presidents Stand Up for Common Sense? I'll Drink to That
On
Campus: Legal Drinking Age is Flunking the Reality
Test
Lower
Drinking Age Is
Criticized
A
Spirited Debate On A Lower Drinking
Age
College
Presidents Press Lawmakers to Open the Debat on Drinking
Age
2
Withdraw From Petition to Rethink Drinking
Age
- Kendall Blanchard, the president of Georgia Southwestern State
University in Americus and Robert M. Franklin of Morehouse College in
Atlanta. as 23 more sign on.
Undersage
Drinking Stats
100 College Presidents Want Your Kids to be able
to Drink at 18
The recent news about how 100 college presidents have signed on to the so-called Amethyst Initiative cannot be ignored by any of us. The time to act is now.
As every bit of evidence tells us, it would be a national tragedy to turn back the clock and lower the drinking age from 21 to 18.
Tens of thousands of lives have been saved since the mid-80’s when the minimum drinking age of 21 reached all 50 states. This self-serving initiative that lets college presidents off the hook would only increase teenage drinking, thereby escalating an already-serious health crisis in our country.
Instead of debating a lower drinking age and dreaming up ways to limit potential liability, university officials need to formulate campus alcohol policies.
Oregon Partnership’s President/CEO Judy Cushing just returned from a national conference on underage drinking sponsored by the Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center. Opposition to the Amethyst Initiative was loud and clear, yet we can use this as an opportunity to raise awareness about the dangers of lowering the drinking age.
Here are some things you can do:
Get educated on the issue by visiting a few of these websites: why21.org - collegedrinkingprevention.org - new-futures.org - MADD.
Write or email college presidents in your area – those who may have signed on and those who haven’t. Thank the presidents not on the list.
Write or email members of Congress, your governor and elected state officials.
Feel free to use the arguments included in the Oregon
Partnership Op-Ed
Click here to view the list of college presidents who have signed the Amethyst Initiative.
Note: (Amethyst is from the ancient Greek for "not
intoxicated.")
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