The link to the article on cnn.com won't work, but here's this anyway:

Dear nation,

Lowering the drinking age will not solve American college's binge drinking problem.

It's true that countries such as Canada and the U.K. do not see underage drinking issues on the magnitude that we do here in the states. That being said, however, the U.S. is not Canada or the U.K. Alcohol is a social stigma here. There is so much pressure in college to drink; I don't give a shit what anyone else thinks, it's definitely there in full force.

College binge drinking creates a window for alcoholism later in life. Classes are stressful and students feel the need to deal with it on the weekends with kegstands and beer pong. Lowering the drinking age to 18 isn't going to change that.

Do I have a solution? No. I could spout a bunch of soapbox-speech about raising awareness and all that hullabaloo, but the reality is that parents have a responsibility to their children to teach them the dangers of alcohol and youth have a responsibility to their own well-being to find other ways of dealing with stress in college. Alcohol will not solve your problems. Nine times out of ten, it creates more of them.

I suggest some yoga classes. But that's just me.

Regards.