<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/324a9a51-921b-46ee-8dbb-e9ab049b2378/94770C31-8885-4660-BEB2-07E15731F4D1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://media.www.ramcigar.com/media/storage/paper366/news/2009/04/28/News/Uri-President.Opposes.Lowering.Drinking.Age-3729203.shtml" href="http://media.www.ramcigar.com/media/storage/paper366/news/2009/04/28/News/Uri-President.Opposes.Lowering.Drinking.Age-3729203.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">media.www.ramcigar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.ramcigar.com/media/storage/paper366/news/2009/04/28/News/Uri-President.Opposes.Lowering.Drinking.Age-3729203.shtml"><H2>URI president opposes lowering drinking age</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.ramcigar.com/media/storage/paper366/news/2009/04/28/News/Uri-President.Opposes.Lowering.Drinking.Age-3729203.shtml"><DIV> 09/11/08 - Although some universities are embracing the idea of a lower national drinking age, University of Rhode Island President Robert L. Carothers said URI will not be among them.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.ramcigar.com/media/storage/paper366/news/2009/04/28/News/Uri-President.Opposes.Lowering.Drinking.Age-3729203.shtml"><DIV>This summer, more than 100 university presidents signed an initiative in favor of lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 years of age. The Amethyst Initiative, a campaign launched by a faculty member at Vermont's Middlebury College, garners support from them to promote alcohol use in moderation as opposed to the "clandestine" binge drinking usually responsible for campus tragedies.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://media.www.ramcigar.com/media/storage/paper366/news/2009/04/28/News/Uri-President.Opposes.Lowering.Drinking.Age-3729203.shtml"><DIV>He defends his decision with an armory of research-based facts, including statistics that show a decrease in drunk driving fatalities after the legal age was upped decades ago, and the knowledge that more than 90 percent of sexual assaults are alcohol-related.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/94770C31-8885-4660-BEB2-07E15731F4D1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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