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 MADD.  Please help us spread the word about this issue - forward this alert on to family and friends.  Together we can make a difference!

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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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