Salovey, speak out on drinking

Geng Ngarmboonanant:

Last April, when the Yale College Council asked then-President Richard Levin to publicly support lowering the drinking age, the student body laughed. It was absurd, silly, ill-timed. It wouldn't happen, we thought -- and if it did, our voice would certainly sink in the big pond of national politics.

But after the inauguration of Peter Salovey -- who has since used his pulpit to speak out on federal issues like immigration, research funding and wealth inequality -- we should no longer laugh too hard.

The YCC's proposal was not preposterous; in fact, it is now right. If our president is indeed serious about making Yale "a leader in reducing high-risk drinking" -- which he said just this past week -- then he cannot duck when it comes to fully committing our school to the big fight on the national stage.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 29, 2013 12:14 AM
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