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...besotted cheers rose from the frat houses. But the ranking dismayed Indiana's administrators. Officially, at least, drinking isn't even allowed on campus, except in a few residences for older students. And the school had been trying harder than ever to enforce the rules since the alcohol-related deaths of a sophomore in 1998 and a freshman three years later. Since January 2001, six fraternities have been thrown off campus for alcohol violations. The number of underage students busted for boozing has more than quadrupled since 1998. The school even launched a controversial policy in 1999 to notify parents...
...administrators have to figure out not only how to combat alcohol abuse but also how to fix a growing p.r. problem. A couple of months after the ranking was announced, a porn company decided that Indiana's party atmosphere made it the perfect place to shoot Shane's World No. 32: Campus Invasion. (Students were filmed getting busy with porn stars in a dorm and frat house.) A month later, the Girls Gone Wild crew danced into town to shoot video of topless I.U. women. "It's a horrendous set of actions that all started with the Princeton Review," says...
...notebooks to the irate security officials who could arrest those we'd spoken to for illegally fraternizing with foreign journalists. After a couple hours of unsuccessful interrogation, the local cops changed their tactic: they would forcibly invite us to attend a banquet thrown on our behalf. The copious alcohol was apparently intended to improve our disappointingly meager accounting of our visit...
...Alcohol should not be a part of any club activity. It’s written right there in the handbook, and I don’t think there’s a single club president who doesn’t know that,” Wentzell said...
These incidents prompted the athletic department to disband the rugby team for the season in accordance with the Club Sports Handbook’s mandate forbidding the use of alcohol at a club event...