Leaders of more than 100 colleges and universities from across the United States — including Ohio State, Maryland, Syracuse, Duke and Dartmouth — are asking lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
Ripon College president David Joyce, however, is the only leader from the state of Wisconsin who has signed on with the Amethyst Initiative — a movement launched in July of 2008 to provoke national debate about the drinking age.
….UW-Madison officials did receive information about the Amethyst Initiative, said UW Communications director Amy Toburen, but decided not to make an institutional commitment due to the upcoming change in leadership.