Deans to Students: Stop drinking illegally, start drinking legally

A bunch of college presidents in the US have put together a statement calling for lawmakers to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. Their rationale is that if it's not illegal, students will feel less compelled to drink a ton of booze at once (i.e. the "predrink"), opting instead to drink a ton of booze spaced out over a whole night (i.e. the "Thursday").

A drinking age of 21 is pretty ridiculous when you look at it in the context of other global drinking ages. But hey, at least the United States has some powerful, influential allies in the "no alcohol until 21" club: Paraguay, Indonesia, Pakistan, India (but even then only in certain states), Oman, the UAE, the Ukraine, the Northern Marianas, Fiji and Kiribati.