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Harvard’s alcohol policy for first-years is a blend of old-school, heavy-handed discipline and paternalistic patronizing. Such a peculiar mix has this singular consequence: Proctors expect students to behave like adults, but treat them like children...
...does, however, try to cast drinking as a health issue. All of its reminders in this respect are basically pointless, though, if students can still get in serious disciplinary trouble for being caught with alcohol. That students—essentially only first-years, since the Houses take a more hands-off approach—could be asked to leave Harvard due to inebriated indiscretions is never disguised...
...result, students will not view alcohol as a health issue and, even more importantly, will be wary of taking advantage of the College’s health resources, as long as the threat of punishment is looming...
...Harvard is serious about an alcohol policy that treats students like adults, it will instruct proctors to mind their own business. The hand-holding approach obscures for students an important part of college: learning how to live independently...
Cigarettes and booze often share each other's company, and Duke University scientists believe they have found a physiological reason why. Even a small amount of alcohol seems to significantly boost the pleasurable effects of nicotine. The researchers are testing drugs that can break this link, hoping to find a treatment that can help people kick both addictions. That's good news, considering that 80% to 90% of alcoholics smoke and alcoholism is 10 times as prevalent among smokers as among nonsmokers...