The UWM Post

If you’ve been watching the news lately, you may be aware of something called the Amethyst Initiative. Several prominent college presidents, representing such prestigious schools as Johns Hopkins, Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are currently calling for the lowering of the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. The Initiative, led by former Middlebury College President, John McCardell, is an effort to reduce disastrous binge drinking habits thought to be incited by taboos placed on alcohol consumption of underage college students.

Over the summer I had the opportunity for some recreational reading. I went over to the library and got a copy of Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss, a book I had been planning to read for a while. Though cryptic, it was a fun read.

Fall 2008. A new semester is beginning at Wisconsin's second largest institution. All sorts of activities ranging from cook-outs on Spaights plaza, to Sandburg move-in, to Pantherfest are bringing a dormant campus back to life. Starting a new year is always a time of mixed emotions; it can be exciting, stressful, scary and it certainly is expensive.

There was a time when we accepted everything our parents told us as fact. They