unambiguously is the No. 1 problem on every college campus, according to University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley. "I don't even know what would be No. 2. Just about every unpleasant incident, every crime, involves alcohol abuse by the victim or the perpetrator," Wiley told the New York Times. The question is what do you do to prevent it? There is no "magic bullet," he added. That interview was published September 12, 2007. Now, just a year later, the former president of Middelbury College in Vermont claims he has found the "magic bullet" that can solve the problem.
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iis to lower the nation's legal drinking age from 21 to 18, according to McCardell, who has more than a hundred college presidents signing a petition calling for a "'dispassionate debate" on the drinking age. One of the college presidents who declined to sign the petition is Dr. Robert Carothers, president of the University of Rhode Island, who has embarked on a different strategy.. Read More....

to serve in the military should be old enough to legally purchase and consume alcohol. That was one of the arguments 40 years ago when lawmakers lowered the age of majority to 18. As it turned out, 18-year-olds were better soldiers than drinkers and less than 20 years later all states had risen the legal drinking age back to 21. But in recent years several military bases have relaxed their rules to allow 18-year-old soldiers to drink on military bases. America's largest base, Fort Bliss in Texas has revoked this privilege for 18-year-old recruits. Read More....

meant to make it more difficult for young people to acquire alcoholic beverages have significantly reduced drunk driving deaths, according to a new study.
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