Word: alcoholizing
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...years the administration had expressed concerns over the alcohol, but the UC did nothing to address it. So when [they] got rid of the party grant altogether, the UC created a mob-like hullabaloo,” he says, growing visibly animated for the first time in the interview. “I feel compelled [to run] by the circumstances...
...Among the immediate, concrete changes Flores and McLeod aim to enact are funding Beverage Authorization Teams to police events that provide alcohol and renting out the Cambridge Center for Adult Education on Brattle Street as a venue for students to hold parties and other social events...
...supports the conclusions of the Amethyst Initiative and calls for lowering the legal minimum drinking age from 21 to 18. The editors have not done a thorough job of examining the large body of available scientific evidence on the protective effects of the 21-age law. Of all alcohol control policies, the 21-year minimum drinking age is the most frequently studied, and the one deemed most effective. According to the Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board “ State Age-21 laws are one of the most effective public policies ever implemented in the Nation...
...legal drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 in many states in the 1970s and then raised again nationally through the 1984 Minimum Purchase Age Act-two significant policy shifts that have enabled scientists to contrast effects on alcohol-related deaths. During the ensuing years, dozens of studies have been conducted by epidemiologists, economists, and public health and traffic safety experts. Almost all have found that the Age-21 law saves lives—an estimated 900 nationally each year...
Boiled down to its essence, the logic of the argument put forth by the Amethyst Initiative is: making alcohol more easily available will decrease consumption. Such a counterintuitive proposition requires strong evidence to be credible...