“What would happen if the drinking age was rolled back to 18 or 19? Initially, there would be a surge in binge drinking as young adults savored their newfound freedom. But over time, I predict, U.S. college students would settle into the saner approach to alcohol I saw on the one campus I visited where the legal drinking age is 18: Montreal’s McGill University, which enrolls about 2,000 American undergraduates a year.”

-- Barry Seaman ’67 in an essay from the Aug. 29, 2005, issue of Time magazine. The former Time editor and correspondent spent two years living at 12 colleges and universities to conduct research for his book Binge: What Your College Student Won’t Tell You.


“I’ve been writing plays a very long time and I almost never talk about what I do with anyone, so there has been something incredibly liberating about the idea that I know things that these people want to talk about.”

-- Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson ’72 quoted in the May 22, 2005, New York Times article announcing his appointment as chairman of the playwriting department of Yale School of Drama.


“This is a particularly satisfying award because it’s for all of you!”

-- Jim Willse ’67, editor of the Newark Star-Ledger, speaking to a cheering crowd of staffers gathered to celebrate the paper’s Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for its coverage of N.J. Governor Jim McGreevey’s resignation last year. This quote appeared in the Star-Ledger’s April 4, 2005, edition.