The Amethyst Initiative "Rethink the Drinking Age" has collected signatures of over a hundred University Presidents and Chancellors. They have take the debate of the alcohol drinking age laws over to Opposing Views but let's be real how the list of 100 signatures will be used by prospective teen students:
High public tuition has really gotta cut into a student's drinking money fund - the average tuition cost is over 17 grand for out-of-state partiers at the twelve public schools who made the list. Even Ohio State University (home of High Street) is $21,918 per year and Vermont State Colleges (home of drunk skiers avoiding trees) hits $29,682 yearly.
On the other end of the best 100 are the low cost private schools who signed Amethyst's 100+ list: The College of St. Joseph (CSJ.EDU) and Saint Leo University (SAINTLEO.EDU) are the two non-public institutions with the lowest tuition of under $18,000 a year. That'll make old Joe and Leo the new patron saints of jello shooters and body shots.
The over-40 crowd ($40,200 and $49,210/yr tuition costs respectively) at Middlebury College and Kenyon College are probably the chablis drinking crowd anyway, which federal law already allows with your parents. The signatories from those places didn't exactly stick their necks out by signing the Amethyst petition.
The names of college administrators to watch will be Louis Agnese and John Stamm. In addition to MADD opposing this education initiative, the latest additions to "The List" are from the University of the Incarnate Word and Trinity Lutheran College. When it comes to new wine in old wineskins, WWJD?
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