College binge drinking on the rise

[anna]

Despite efforts to demonize alcohol on campuses over the past 10 years, Harvard researchers have found that binge drinking has gone up, even though the number of people abstaining from alcohol entirely has also gone up. I'm not surprised at this polarization -- it goes well with Americans' all-or-nothing mentality (we seem to do the same thing with diets/eating). The research also said that lowering the drinking age is not the answer.

Just wanted to get people's comments and views on this. Personally, I don't think it's just a matter of lowering the drinking age -- I think it's a cultural issue as well. I personally would love to see the drinking age lowered to 16 and the driving age raised to 21.

Any thoughts out there?

Anna