College Presidents asking for a lowered drinking age.

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Read the article, EE21. College professors say the later drinking age encourages binge drinking, puts students in situations trying to hide alcohol that are typically much more dangerous than a bar/etc, and basically they say you're an adult in every sense of the word. If you do something stupid with alcohol, you're responsible. America has a very high percentage of alcoholism and we have some of the more extreme alcohol laws in the world. (DUIs are much more crippling in many European countries -- part of that comes from great mass transit I would guess) and with our rate of alcoholism, why not change? Yes, more kids between 18-21 will die from alcohol related things -- but there will also be a steep drop-off in deaths from 21-25ish.