The Traveler

This seems like a way for colleges to get out from under any lawsuits that stem from underage drinking.
If the legal drinking age is lowered to 18, the university will have far fewer incidents, and liabilities, to contend with in regards to underage drinking and their (the university's) responsibility to help uphold the law. Since most college students are at least 18, the university won't have to worry about the expense of spreading the "no drinking until you've reached the legal age" message as well as any expenses associated with lawsuits involving them and any of their "under the legal drinking age" students. I'll bet if this gets passed, which may save the university thousands, it won't lower tuition any time soon. Someone will just pocket the savings. But hey, maybe you'll be the lucky one they take out for a toast if this passes!

Maybe Dr. McMath is right, and 18 year old students should be treated as immature children who need to be protected of their own bad judgment, who cannot be trusted with a glass of beer. Maybe President Ronald ("government is the problem, not the solution") Reagan was right when he unconstitutionally forced the states to raise their drinking age in the 1980s.

But then, maybe we should also conclude that the practice of sending 18 year olds into war to sacrifice their lives on behalf of their nation (and of a government as megalomaniac as it is incompetent) should be equated with the use of child soldiers, which is internationally banned. Let's be consistent and raise the battle field age at least as high as the drinking age.