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...President Faust, along with some hundred-odd college presidents and athletic directors, recently signed a petition demanding that the NCAA ban all alcohol advertisements during college sports broadcasts...
...Alcohol policies on college campus seldom prove popular among the student populations. Following repeated incidents of dangerous binge drinking and routine hospitalization for alcohol-related concerns, college administrators rightly increase their concern for the well-being of their charges. But as recent events at Harvard have proven, deans prefer to impose liability-proof safeguards—tedious paperwork for registering parties, imperious oversight by entryway proctors, and severely curtailed access to alcohol in general—rather than opt for the more arduous but perhaps more far-seeing approach of encouraging a culture of personal responsibility and maturity. Inevitably...
...Faust’s recent and rather inconspicuous effort to combat dangerous drinking culture points to a larger and less frequently debated problem than the continuous harangue over campus alcohol regulations...
...University presidents—including and especially our own—have persistently and prominently expressed concern about students’ well-being when the issue is alcohol consumption. But no similar consensus exists on the question of the ultimate purpose and mission of a university and higher education in general...
...health and security concerns intimately related to alcohol consumption, especially prevalent on American campuses, no doubt merit the attention of college doyens. But it is a relatively easy issue to address: conclusive statistics can be marshaled to indentify the problem and causes...