Friday, August 22, 2008

Call on College Presidents to Support the 21 Minimum Legal Drinking Age

 

Dear Friend,

An estimated 25,000 lives have been saved by the 21 Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA), which is why we were gravely concerned to learn that the college and university presidents and representatives listed below have added their names to a misguided initiative aimed at attacking the minimum drinking age of 21.

We are not alone in our concern. The public strongly disagrees with efforts to lower the drinking age. According to a new survey released by Nationwide Insurance this week:

  • 78 percent of adults support 21 as the minimum drinking age
  • 72 percent of adults think lowering the drinking age would make alcohol more accessible to kids 
  • Nearly half believe it would increase binge drinking among teens
  • More than half say they are less likely to vote for a state representative who supports lowering the legal limit or send their children to colleges or universities with “party school” reputations

Contact the college and university presidents who have signed on to this initiative and request they remove their signatures and support the 21 Minimum Legal Drinking Age.

We must work together to find a responsible solution to the underage drinking problem, one that does not jeopardize a law that has saved nearly 25,000 lives since going into effect.  Solutions include: enforcing the drinking age, tightening alcohol policy, working within the college community to ensure the environment supports the above and working with parents to talk to their children well before peer pressure begins, around fourth grade.

We need your help to fight this effort to lower the drinking age. Please consider a contribution to MADDPlease help us spread the word about this issue - forward this alert on to family and friends.  Together we can make a difference!

President
College
State

President Vincent Maniaci
American International College
MA

President Jerry M. Greiner
Arcadia University
PA

President Ronald Slepitza
Avila University
MO

President Elizabeth Coleman
Bennington College
VT

President Scott D. Miller
Bethany College
WV

President Bobby Fong
Butler University
IN

President David Wolk
Castleton State College
VT

President Mark J. Tierno
Cazenovia College
NY

President Carmen Twillie Ambar
Cedar Crest College
PA

President Esther L. Barazzone
Chatham University
PA

President John Bassett
Clark University
MA

President Anthony G. Collins
Clarkson University
NY

President James R. Phifer
Coe College
IA

President Rebecca S. Chopp
Colgate University
NY

President Robert Hoover
College of Idaho
ID

President Mary Pat Seurkamp
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
MD

President Frank Miglorie
College of St. Joseph
VT

President Richard Celeste
Colorado College
CO

Dennison Griffith
Columbus College of Art & Design
OH

President James E. Wright
Dartmouth College
NH

President G. T. Smith
Davis & Elkins College
WV

President William G. Durden
Dickinson College
PA

President Robert Weisbuch
Drew University
NJ

President Richard Brodhead
Duke University
NC

President Joseph R. Fink
Dominican University of California
CA

President Donald R. Eastman III
Eckerd College
FL

President Theodore Long
Elizabethtown College 
PA

President Thomas Meier
Elmira College
NY

President Richard E. Wylie
Endicott College
MA

President Jeffrey von Arx
Fairfield University
CT

President Kendall A. Blanchard
Georgia Southwestern State University
GA

President Janet Morgan Riggs
Gettysburg College
PA

President Sanford J. Ungar
Goucher College
MD

President Jack Ohle
Gustavus Adolphus College
MN

President Joan Hinde Stewart
Hamilton College
NY

President Walter M. Bortz
Hampden-Sydney College
VA

President Ralph J. Hexter
Hampshire College
MA

President Susan DeWine
Hanover College
IN

President Nancy O. Gray
Hollins University
VA

President Richard B. Gilman
Holy Cross College (IN)
IN

President John J. Bowen
Johnson & Wales University
RI

President William Brody
Johns Hopkins University
MD

President Barbara Murphy
Johnson State College
VT

Chancellor Leon Richards
Kapiolani Community College
HI

President S. Georgia Nugent
Kenyon College
OH

President Daniel H. Weiss
Lafayette College
PA

President Stephen D. Schutt
Lake Forest College
IL

President Thomas J. Hochstettler
Lewis & Clark College
OR

President Carol A. Moore
Lyndon State College
VT

President Leonard Tyler
Maine Maritime Academy
ME

President Thomas J. Scanlan, F.S.C.
Manhattan College
NY

President Richard Berman
Manhattanville College
NY

President Tim Foster
Mesa State College
CO

President Ronald Liebowitz
Middlebury College
VT

President Frances Lucas
Millsaps College
MS

President Mary Ellen Jukoski
Mitchell College
CT

President Christopher Thomforde
Moravian College
PA

President Robert Michael Franklin Jr.
Morehouse College
GA

President Joanne V. Creighton
Mount Holyoke College
MA

President Peyton R. Helm
Muhlenberg College
PA

President Randy Dunn
Murray State University
KY

President Thomas B. Coburn
Naropa University 
CO

President Fran Voigt
New England Culinary Institute
VT

President Debra Townsley
Nichols College
MA 

President Robert A. Skotheim
Occidental College
CA

President Lawrence Schall
Oglethorpe University
GA

President E. Gordon Gee
Ohio State University
OH

President Loren J. Anderson
Pacific Lutheran University
WA

President Phil Creighton
Pacific University
OR

President John Mills
Paul Smith's College
NY

President David W. Oxtoby
Pomona College
CA

President Robert A. Gervasi
Quincy University
IL

President Robert R. Lindgren
Randolph-Macon College
VA

President William E. Troutt
Rhodes College
TN

President David C. Joyce
Ripon College
WI

President Gregory G. Dell'Omo
Robert Morris University
PA

President Charles R. Middleton
Roosevelt University
IL

President Pamela Trotman Reid
Saint Joseph College (CT)
CT

President Timothy R. Lannon
Saint Joseph's University (PA)
PA

President Arthur F. Kirk
Saint Leo University
FL

President Patricia Maguire Meservey
Salem State College
MA

President JoAnne Boyle
Seton Hill University
PA

Vice Chancellor Joel L. Cunningham
Sewanee: University of the South
TN

President Carol T. Christ
Smith College
MA

President Paul LeBlanc
Southern New Hampshire University
NH

President Beverly Daniel Tatum
Spelman College
GA

President Robert E. Ritschel
Spoon River College
IL

President Daniel F. Sullivan
St. Lawrence University
NY

President Harold J. Raveche
Stevens Institute of Technology
NJ

President Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld
Sweet Briar College
VA

Chancellor Nancy Cantor
Syracuse University
NY

President J. Patrick O’Brien
Texas A & M University-West Texas
TX

President Robert Caret
Towson University
MD

President James F. Jones, Jr.
Trinity College
CT

President John M. Stamm
Trinity Lutheran College
WA

President Lawrence S. Bacow
Tufts University
MA

President Walter Harrison
University of Hartford
CT

President Jennifer Hunter-Cevera
University of Maryland-Biotechnology Institute
MD

President C.D. Mote Jr.
University of Maryland--College Park
MD

President Jack M. Wilson
University of Massachusetts System
MA

President Steven H. Kaplan
University of New Haven
CT

President Louis Agnese Jr.
University of the Incarnate Word
TX

Chancellor William E. Kirwan
University System of Maryland
MD

President Geoffrey Shields
Vermont Law School
VT

Chancellor Robert Clarke
Vermont State Colleges
VT

President Ty Handy
Vermont Technical College
VT

President Tori Haring-Smith
Washington and Jefferson College
PA

President Kenneth P. Ruscio
Washington and Lee University
VA

President L. Baird Tipson
Washington College
MD

President Michael Bassis
Westminster College
UT

President Sharon D. Herzberger
Whittier College
CA

President James T. Harris
Widener University
PA

President M. Lee Pelton
Willamette University
OR

President Lorna Duphiney Edmundson
Wilson College
PA

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