Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phenomenon on American college campuses. The presence of the Sheriff of Middlesex County at the head of the academic processions in Harvard Yard was traced by President Neil L. Rudenstine to the need to control drunk and disorderly behavior at graduations in colonial times. The tradition of heavy alcohol use by college students is part of the history of most institutions. Listen to almost any college song, and you are bound to hear about young men hoisting their beer mugs in tribute to their alma mater. Colleges have had a long-term affair with beer...
...major national newspapers by the presidents of 113 colleges and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges announced a joint effort to deal with the problem of student binge drinking. This advertising campaign signals a major change in the way that colleges are responding to the alcohol problem on their campuses. The problem has moved from the agenda of assistant deans of students to the desks of college presidents. It is openly discussed in the New York Times rather than being kept hidden to avoid embarrassment to a school's reputation...
Five years ago the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study released its first report, bringing college binge drinking to national attention--not that it had been a well-kept secret until then. Jay Leno joked at the time, "Did it take a team of Harvard researchers to discover that college students drink?" The study did put some numbers on this behavior. Nationally, two in five students were binge drinkers, and half of these binge drinkers did so several times a week. The impact of binge drinking was not limited to the drinkers alone, but also affected others...
...national attention focused on students' heavy alcohol use by the report was rekindled during in the next few years with each account of a student's alcohol-related death. A spate of such tragedies occurred on college campuses throughout the country. One tragedy in particular, the death from acute alcohol poisoning of Scott Krueger at an MIT fraternity, caught the national consciousness. The fact that this could happen even at an academically elite institution meant that it could happen anywhere...
Despite the attention colleges are giving to this problem, there has been no decrease in the level of heavy alcohol use to date. Perhaps it is too early to find a change. Perhaps the approaches colleges have undertaken so far are too limited...