College Presidents Push to Lower Drinking Age

Presidents of 100 prominent colleges are behind an effort to have the drinking age lowered, from 21 to 18, claiming that earlier experience of drinking younger will reduce students' binge drinking in college. Presidents of Duke, Dartmouth, Ohio State, Syracuse, Tufts and Colgate are among the campaign's supporters, AP reports.

"This is a law that is routinely evaded," said the former president of Middlebury College in Vermont, who launched the campaign. "It is a law that the people at whom it is directed believe is unjust and discriminatory." Half a million college students suffer alcohol-related injuries each year. (More drinking age stories.)