Fighting drinking with more drinking

A bunch of college presidents want to lower the drinking age. One can make that case, but why would college presidents make it? Drinking and underage drinking are huge problems on college campuses, part of the climate of debauchery that rules at most of our institutions of higher education. These presidents are saying that if the legal drinking age were lowed to 18, that would somehow help them deal with binge drinking. That is hugely naive. College students tend to drink, not so much to make the heart glad, but precisely in order to get drunk. Later, they might develop a more mature use of alcohol, but 18 year olds at fraternity parties will not.