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...There’s no effort made to look at the quality of the [social norms] campaign, and how extensive it was,” said William DeJong, a Boston University professor and director of the Higher Education for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, which endorses social norms program as part of a comprehensive approach. “One issue is—did they even understand what the term meant...
Proper use of the social norms program—which uses multiple information sources to send students the message that little or no drinking, rather than heavy alcohol consumption, is the campus norm—entails exposure to a systematically designed media campaign and awareness training over an extended period of time, according to Alan Berkowitz, an independent consultant who co-founded the social norms approach...
Wechsler’s criticism of the social norms model stems in part from his belief that it targets students too broadly. He believes that alcohol behavior results more from a local group of friends than from perception of the entire student body’s behavior, he said...
...light of his most recent findings, Wechsler said he would urge colleges to consider options other than the social norms approach. Such options, he said, might include working to diminish alcohol supply...
...former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 said that Wechsler’s research was not a major influence on the College’s general standards for alcohol consumption and treatment...