A panel discussion and documentary screening about alcohol fatalities will take place from 7 to 9 tonight at the Kansas Union.

Laura Green, executive director of the Drug Policy Forum of Kansas, said she was compelled to organize an event in direct response to the death of Jason Wren, a 19-year-old Littleton, Colo., freshman who was found dead in his fraternity on March 8.

April 20 isn't only the anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School. It's also 4/20, a national celebration of cannabis culture -- something long supported by Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), who led the successful 2005 campaign to legalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for 21-and-up Denverites. However, events sponsored by SAFER on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus today aren't being portrayed as a prelude to that sacred day, which is less than two weeks away. Instead, Tvert is tying into National Alcohol Awareness Month, as well as the Amethyst Initiative, an organization made up of college chancellors and presidents who want to reduce drinking on campuses. He's promoting the "Emerald Initiative," which implies that drinking might be curbed if restrictions against pot use were eased -- and he's calling on the Barack Obama administration to lend a hand in the name of science. Yes, science.

Check out the latest variation on Tvert's rap, as well as a schedule of events at CU, which begin at noon, by clicking "Continue."

The Inside Higher Ed headline, Can We Be Buds? The story is about a student group, SAFER (Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation), pressing the same college presidents pushing lowering the drinking age onto the national agenda to pick up pot. Figuratively, of course:

SAFER, a nonprofit organization that supports the reform of marijuana laws, is calling on college presidents to join its cause, arguing that students would be safer taking bong hits than tequila shots. The group is specifically seeking the endorsement of presidents who signed the Amethyst Initiative, which stated that the current legal drinking age of 21 might be contributing to drinking deaths and should be re-examined.