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JOHN MCCARDELL, former Middlebury College President, founded the
group Choose Responsibility in December 2006. McCardell's opinions
on the current drinking age were first outlined in an op-ed in
the New York Times entitled "What Your College President
Didn't Tell You," in which, amongst other things, he stated
that the 21 year-old drinking age is "bad social policy and
terrible law." |
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| BARRETT SEAMAN spent 30 years as a correspondent and editor for Time Magazine before taking early retirement in 2001 and turning his journalist's eye towards contemporary American college life. His book, "Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess" (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) is the product of two years of reporting on twelve different college and university campuses and offers an unvarnished but balanced view of how students at some of the country's best institutions conduct their daily lives. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Choose Responsibility, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the climate in which young Americans are exposed to alcohol and which specifically calls for a reassessment of the federally-mandated minimum 21-year-old drinking age. |
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| JAMES C. FELL is a Senior Program Director with the Pacific Institute for Research
and Evaluation (PIRE) in Calverton, MD. He is currently involved
in projects evaluating the effectiveness of traffic safety enforcement
programs to reduce impaired driving, particularly highly visible,
highly publicized and frequent sobriety checkpoints, and the role
of Impaired Driving Task Forces. Mr. Fell served on the National Board of Directors for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) from 1999-2006. He has over 40 years of traffic safety and alcohol research experience, and has authored over 100 scientific publications in the areas of highway safety, alcohol impairment and human factors research. Mr. Fell believes that lowering the drinking age will lead to increases in alcoholism, highway fatalities, and alcohol-influenced violence. |
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| WILLIAM DEJONG is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health (2001 to present). He also serves as Executive Director for Research and Analysis at Outside The Classroom, Inc. (OTC), an alcohol online education and information services company based in Needham, Massachusetts. He oversees development and revision of OTC's AlcoholEdu for College course, which is taken annually by approximately 400,000 first-year college students. DeJong is the author of nearly 400 professional publications in the fields of alcohol and tobacco control, criminal justice, health communications, health promotion, and social psychology. Many of these publications focus on issues related to alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems among college students. In addition, since 1989, he has participated in over 140 conferences and workshops as a keynote speaker, invited speaker, or discussant. Most of these speaking engagements have also focused on substance use issues on campus |
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John McCardell and Barrett Seaman will join the debate with one of their two opponents, James C. Fell or William DeJong. By bringing this controversial, timely and informative debate to campus, students can learn more on both sides of the issue, and help create meaningful dialogues on campus. |
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