Want to eliminate the scourge of frat culture? Lower the drinking age.

A new report in Rolling Stone lays bare the connection between Greek life and campus rape

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An explosive article published last week in Rolling Stone details the horrific saga of a University of Virginia woman who was gang-raped at a fraternity party, and subsequently found that her efforts to bring the attackers to justice only resulted in further suffering. The expose is the latest addition to a growing body of discourse on campus sexual assaults, a subject of furious recent debate, especially following California's passage of so-called affirmative consent legislation.

Highlighted by the article is a sorely under-acknowledged contributor to the culture of sexual predation in higher education: the dominance of Greek life. To counteract this, policy-makers can make a deceptively simple fix: lower the drinking age.

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Michael Tracey is a journalist based in New York.