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Article: Amethyst Initiative
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 10, 2008
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Clarkson University issued the following message:
To: The Clarkson Campus & Alumni Community
From: President Tony Collins
Earlier this year I joined the Amethyst Initiative to spur national debate on the legal drinking age. Publicly launched in July 2008, the Amethyst Initiative is made up of chancellors and presidents of universities and colleges across the United States. These higher education leaders have signed their names to a public statement that the 21-year-old drinking age is not working, and, specifically, that it has contributed to the creation of a culture of dangerous binge drinking on their campuses.
The Amethyst Initiative supports informed and unimpeded debate on the ...