Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statement, prepared at a March 17th meeting of the committee, states that "Studies on alcohol abuse at colleges and universities show that there are significant secondary effects for roommates and friends of those who drink excessively...
...statistics examined by both the committee on House Life and the CCL come from a study of alcohol use conducted on several college campuses, which was released last fall...
...smokers--is that it asserts that the healthiest lifestyle is the only viable one. Should it be found that active smokers tend to live longer than sedentary non-smokers, our treasured liberty to do nothing may go the way of our liberty to smoke. Televisions could join alcohol and cigarettes by getting their very own "sin" tax. One American icon, the couch potato, might join another, the Marlboro Man, as a target of paternalism...
...been almost six months since an MIT first-year died after entering a coma with a blood alcohol level of .41. In the weeks after the tragedy, college, police and government officials seemed to be tripping over each other in their rush to denounce the use and abuse of alcohol. The UMass schools moved to ban it. Deans Archie C. Epps III and Harry R. Lewis '68 released a statement about it. And two poor Harvard first-years were arrested for buying it. But sources of power and authority in the lives of Harvard students have, thankfully, been relatively quiet...
...decide to take a survey of underage undergrads, and I make the statistically unorthodox (if terribly convenient) decision to focus my attention on people I know. The dominant sentiment that emerges through a series of conversations and e-mails is that Krueger's death had a palpable impact on alcohol access. But there's no consensus about whether things have since relaxed. One member of the class of 2000 tells me that just after the MIT incident, "friends' I.D.'s which always worked were suddenly being looked at a little more closely, and sometimes even denied by people...