Pass me the bottle, Mr. President

No, not that president!

Get this story from the AP:

College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

The movement called the Amethyst Initiative began quietly recruiting presidents more than a year ago to provoke national debate about the drinking age.

"This is a law that is routinely evaded," said John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College in Vermont who started the organization.

"It is a law that the people at whom it is directed believe is unjust and unfair and discriminatory."

Other prominent schools in the group include Syracuse, Tufts, Colgate, Kenyon and Morehouse.

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How bout that?

This is rich. College presidents asking for more legal drinking! Isn't this sort of like the warden saying the inmates don't have enough couches?

I never thought I'd see the day.

Now our crack research staff here at the Bark has been all over this (once they took a break from scanning the ground for coins with their metal detectors).

And guess what?

Butler's own President Bobby Fong is one of the signatories!

If you're not convinced this isn't a hoax (and I wouldn't entirely blame you), you can see what he and 114 of his peers had to say at amethystinitiative.org.