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Binge drinking challenge Our view: The legal drinking age of 21 should remain
Baltimore Sun August 21, 2008
A number or respected academic leaders in Maryland believe the legal drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18, to help confront what they describe as a hidden crisis in binge drinking among students. But they offer no convincing evidence that lowering the drinking age would reduce excessive alcohol use by college students.
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Drinking-age proposal draws attacks Health, safety groups say 21 is a success
Baltimore Sun August 20, 2008
Health, safety and transportation advocates denounced Tuesday a proposal by more than 100 university administrators to reconsider the legal drinking age of 21 -- contending that any reduction would lead to thousands of additional drunken-driving deaths and other harm to the public health.
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Educators Urge Lower Drinking Age to Cut Bingeing
Washington Post August 20, 2008
Scores of college presidents, including the head of Maryland's public university system and the president of Johns Hopkins University, have an unexpected request for legislators: Please, lower the drinking age.
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U.S. surgeon general to visit MSU
Montana State University August 15, 2008
The acting surgeon general of the United States, Rear Adm. Steven Galson, will visit Montana State University on Aug. 20.Galson will focus on collegiate alcohol abuse, underage drinking. Last year, Galson's office published "A Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking," a report that considers underage alcohol abuse as a public health crisis.
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NCAA Will Continue to Allow Beer Ads
Washington Post August 8, 2008
The NCAA's executive committee decided yesterday it couldn't eliminate alcohol advertising nor stop the incorporation of college sports into fantasy games and decided, essentially, to retain the status quo.
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UF Looking to Tackle Excessive Drinking
Gainesville Sun (Fla.) August 6, 2008
A week after being named the nation's top party school, the University of Florida is breaking up the party.UF is proposing a ban on drinking games and kegs in a sweeping rewrite of its student conduct code released Monday.
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