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...Alcohol industry representatives vehemently dispute this claim...
College sports fans are more likely to binge drink than their non-sports fan peers, according to a report released this week by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) College Alcohol Study and authored by HSPH lecturer Henry Wechsler...
Echoing the arguments of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, Wechsler pointed to efforts by the alcohol industry to market to college-aged sports fans as a reason for their binge drinking...
While sports fans are disproportionately young men—also the heaviest drinking demographic—Wechsler said, “they are also targeted by the alcohol industry through advertising and through special drink promotions...
...College should have its disciplinary policies not simply to maintain order on campus—thus its various regulations on alcohol and partying—but also to act in loco parentis by upholding for us at least something of a moral framework. This is all the more important during the college years, when arriving adolescents learn to manage their freedom and thus become adults...