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Harvard’s triple-overtime football victory was not the only reason to celebrate this past weekend. The Harvard-Yale Game also came and went without any alcohol-related arrests or injuries. According to Yale Police Department (YPD) Lieutenant Michael Patten, who was in charge of the YPD patrol at The Game, ambulances transported about 30 people away from the Yale Bowl for evaluation after excessive alcohol consumption. Still, he said, the game and accompanying festivities “went remarkably well” overall. “I don’t recall any specific incidents?...
Three researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that schools that fully implemented the “A Matter of Degree” (AMOD) approach prevented drunk driving more effectively than institutions that used traditional alcohol policies that focus on educating individuals...
...Henry Wechsler, principal investigator for the AMOD study and an HSPH lecturer, said that his long-running College Alcohol Study, which spawned AMOD, has not found any evidence that such programs are effective by themselves. Instead, Wechsler’s study showed that a combination of policies that limit access to and consumption of alcohol better curb binge drinking and drunk driving on campuses...
...risk factors, a study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers has found. In a report published in the UK medical journal The Lancet, the scientists attributed 2.43 million cancer deaths in 2001 to modifiable factors, such as obesity, low fruit and vegetable intake, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol, unsafe sex, and urban air pollution. HSPH Assistant Professor of International Health Majid Ezzati, the lead researcher of the study, said that smoking is the leading cause of death from cancer by some measures, making up 21 percent of all cancer-related deaths worldwide. He stressed that this ranking from...
...revelry that really only has one occasion, The Game, to rear its beautiful and intoxicated head. Do these elite schools really think their traditions of privilege and culture are above such messy and pedestrian things as drinking? Is there some strange compound in our blue blood that reacts with alcohol to create disastrous effects?Surely there had to be some reason, some rationale. Surely the deans and administrators of Harvard and Yale have been to, or at least heard of, tailgates and parties at Michigan or Florida State where, despite the apparent chaos, people are generally alive...