Amethyst Initiative – Here is why the Amethyst Initiative is getting so much attention in the press, college campuses and even the presidential race of 2008.
The Amethyst Initiative asks the question many have been asking since the legal drinking age was raised to twenty-one in 1984.
Why is it, the Amethyst Initiative asks, are young adults old enough at 18 to vote, serve on juries, sign contracts, and serve in the military, but not deemed capable of drinking alchohol.
College and University Presidents are asked to sign and support the Amethyst Initiative and encourage polititians to rethink the drinking age.
The Amethyst Initiative is so named for the Greek words for “not intoxicated”.
Currently only college and university presidents can sign, but others can join the effort to change the drinking age and help de-criminalize under age drinking and hopefully minimalize binge drinking that is rampant particularly among the college set.
And that’s the latest news about the Amethyst Initiative.
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August 19th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
It is hard to believe that educated men, governing educational institutoins, can be so blatantly wrong in their position and illogical in their thinking.