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Article: The drinking age myth
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- September 7, 2008
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There's a myth in this country that the drinking age is 21. But that's only the legal age. The fact that government says you can't drink before 21 does not mean younger people don't drink.
More than 100 college presidents understand this and now they want the minimum drinking age reconsidered.
"The 21-year-old drinking age is not working," says the Amethyst Initiative, launched by former Middlebury College President John McCardell, president of Choose Responsibility Inc.
The college leaders' statement charges that a "culture of dangerous, clandestine 'binge-drinking' -- often conducted off-campus -- has developed" and that "By ...