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CR President Barrett Seaman will participate in a conversation on HuffPost live TODAY at 12.30pm ET to discuss Colorado State Senator Greg Brophy’s proposed bill to legalize consumption for people 18-20 in the presence of their parents. According to the Huffington Post, the bill comes from the place of a concerned parent who sees the difficulty in imbuing his child with responsibility if he cannot teach her himself. Hence, he proposed the bill after taking his 20 year old daughter to dinner and not being able to share a glass of wine with her. And on Friday, he wrote on his Facebook page,

 Why is it appropriate for the State to deny parents the ability to show their adult kids how to responsibly consume adult beverages in a public setting? Those same kids are often turned completely loose to attend college hundreds of miles from home and completely unsupervised. Those same kids will be able to consume adult beverages completely unfettered on their 21st birthday. (ignoring the fact that they will have nearly unfettered access between the time they leave your home and that 21st birthday) Why on earth would you want to deny responsible parents the chance to expose their own kids to the effects of this product while with their parents?

Senator Brophy has taken a bold step towards empowering parents to teach their children to drink alcohol responsibly BEFORE they are “taught” to drink by their peers. Watch Barrett Seaman respond on HuffPost Live today by clicking here.

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Barry Seaman, [CR] President and author of Binge: Campus Life in An Age of Disconnection and Excess, participated in a conversation with WWBY Baltimore and David Jernigan, associate professor and director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, John’s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Seaman and Jernigan were prompted to have a frank conversation on the realities of alcohol on college campuses after 28 University of Maryland students were hospitalized for binge drinking during the first two weeks of the semester. Although The Amethyst Initiative has been met with opposition, WWBY choose to host this conversation because of the obvious disconnect between the legal drinking age and the implications it has on student, and adult, health.

We’ll be posting a synopsis of the conversation tomorrow, but we invite you to listen now and join a conversation about the radio program on Facebook tomorrow. Click here to listen. 

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This Friday, June 24, [CR] President Barrett Seaman will speak at the Forum on Education Abroad’s second Standards of Good Practice Institute at Northwestern University. This year’s theme is “Beyond the Basics of Health, Safety, and Security.”

The full schedule for the event is available here.

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Recently, [CR] President Barrett Seaman visited Q102 Radio in Philadelphia to discuss the drinking age debate with Clear Channel Public Affairs Director Loraine Ballard Morrill. You can listen to an archived copy of the interview here.

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