Category: Alcohol
Radley Balko over at Reason has an interview with John McCardell, the former president of Middlebury College, who initiated the Amethyst Initiative -- a "collective of college presidents urging a public discussion about the drinking age." Here is what he...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:39 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Alcohol
I talked last week about the pros and cons of lowering the drinking age back to 18. One of the cons that I had assumed was that lowering the drinking age would increase the number of traffic fatalities in the...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:40 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Alcohol
I have talked a little before about alternative strategies to lowering college alcohol abuse -- alternative meaning as opposed to outright bans like the 21 drinking age. Now a set of college presidents are circulating something called the Amethyst Initiative...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 7:42 PM • 34 Comments •
Category: Alcohol
There is an interesting article by Brandon Busteed in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about college drinking. Busteed argues that the problem is not the population that addiction specialists tend to focus on: the really heavy drinkers. Rather the problem...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:22 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Alcohol
I refuse to accept the results of this study: After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex and dumb luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably sudsier may be at play in...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:33 PM • 3 Comments •