College presidents trying to lower drinking age to 18 - cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board

MikeWaters · 08-19-2008, 03:24 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/18....ap/index.html

MADD is against it.

SU cheers. Because if the drinking age is lowered to 18, the kids will be healthier, in his estimation and live longer.

The science is clear, he exclaims!

SeattleUte · 08-19-2008, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/18....ap/index.html

MADD is against it.

SU cheers. Because if the drinking age is lowered to 18, the kids will be healthier, in his estimation and live longer.

The science is clear, he exclaims!

Waters, let me call it. Your avatar is gay. See, Creekster is wrong!

il Padrino Ute · 08-19-2008, 03:28 AM

Unbelieveable.

Perhaps those who favor it don't want the possible liability that comes with not enforcing the law on their campuses?

MikeWaters · 08-19-2008, 03:32 AM

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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Unbelieveable.

Perhaps those who favor it don't want the possible liability that comes with not enforcing the law on their campuses?

ding, ding, ding!

It's a win-win for SU. 1) better health for the students, 2) DWIs, manslaughter, public intoxication give him more work.

DrumNFeather · 08-19-2008, 12:34 PM

That is particularly interesting because I was just reading last week that a number of college presidents including those at BYU and Utah were pushing to have alcohol commercials removed from college football telecasts.

Sleeping in EQ · 08-19-2008, 04:43 PM

Don't forget that towns that are dominated by the presence of a college or university often make a truckload of money from the sale of alcohol.

Venkman · 08-19-2008, 04:59 PM

I think it's silly that the age of majority is 18 yet the drinking age is 21. They should be the same age.

creekster · 08-19-2008, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Venkman

I think it's silly that the age of majority is 18 yet the drinking age is 21. They should be the same age.

As the father of a 19 year old male I find it laughable that 18 is considered an adult.

Archaea · 08-19-2008, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

As the father of a 19 year old male I find it laughable that 18 is considered an adult.

21 is a good age to allow legal drinking.

08-19-2008, 03:24 AM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	College presidents trying to lower drinking age to 18 http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/18....ap/index.html MADD is against it. SU cheers. Because if the drinking age is lowered to 18, the kids will be healthier, in his estimation and live longer. The science is clear, he exclaims!

08-19-2008, 03:28 AM	#3
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	Unbelieveable. Perhaps those who favor it don't want the possible liability that comes with not enforcing the law on their campuses? __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

08-19-2008, 04:43 PM	#6
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Don't forget that towns that are dominated by the presence of a college or university often make a truckload of money from the sale of alcohol. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

08-19-2008, 04:59 PM	#7
Venkman Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Jordan, UT Posts: 1,799	I think it's silly that the age of majority is 18 yet the drinking age is 21. They should be the same age. __________________ WWPD?

08-19-2008, 12:34 PM	#5
DrumNFeather Active LDS Ute Fan Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Nantucket : ) Posts: 2,566	That is particularly interesting because I was just reading last week that a number of college presidents including those at BYU and Utah were pushing to have alcohol commercials removed from college football telecasts.