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...Harvard started the Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors program, whose advisors are known as DAPAs, and since the program was started, incoming freshmen are required to attend a meeting on safe drinking. DAPAs also provide grants for alcohol-safe parties on campus. Harvard freshmen also are required to complete AlcoholEDU, and online program that teaches safe drinking habits, before coming to campus...
...problem is, however helpful DAPA and AlcoholEDU might be, they will never been able to counteract the real culprit that facilitate binge drinking: Harvard’s amnesty policy. As stated in the Handbook for Students, if someone is brought into University Health Services because of alcohol related issues, he or she would not face disciplinary action from the school for consuming alcohol. No program condemning binge drinking can ever work without negative ramifications for doing so. It’s the principle of moral hazard: someone who is insulated from risk will behave differently than if they...
Binge drinking in college is a huge problem, and the negative ramifications of alcohol are countless. Students are more likely to be arrested, engage in risky sexual activity, and have academic-related problems if they are heavy drinkers. More than 150,000 students will be diagnosed with an alcohol-related health issue each year. What is Harvard doing to stop this? Not enough, and the amnesty policy Harvard has in place is actively hurting the student body. With stricter policies, there might finally be a downward trend in binge drinking, and a happier, healthier student body...
Lowell's Thursday stein clubs are a great source of fun, community, and alcohol. Show up to a stein club and you'll generally find much better alcohol than what you'd normally buy for your own room. Why drink Rubinoff when you could have some yummy Smirnoff Ice or beer that actually tastes good...
...matter. When it comes down to it, we freshmen will do what we want. We’re the Class of 2013—we’ve already been admitted to Stillman for alcohol-poisoning more than any other class to date! (Including the post-prohibition class of ’33.) The administration clearly cannot keep us from our self-harming and public-endangering revelry with the meager presence of “scary” state-troopers and a t-shirt slumber party that ends at midnight. If the Grinch stole Christmas, then Dean Dingman...