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...rooms of students of legal drinking age. The University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Tufts University have also banned drinking games. "We don't want our students participating in activities that could do excessive harm to themselves or others," says Michelle Bowdler, a health administrator at Tufts...
...Bowdler has a point. Recent data from the Harvard School of Public Health's College Alcohol study, which surveyed more than 50,000 students at 120 colleges, show that binge-drinking habits vary widely from campus to campus. Kids tend to party hardest at schools with few official alcohol-control policies, easy access to alcohol and strong drinking cultures...
...related paraphernalia in its on-campus dorms - even in the rooms of students of legal drinking age. The University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Tufts University have also banned drinking games. "We're pleased that Tufts has put this in writing," says Michelle Bowdler, a health administrator at the school. "Although we understand that 21 is the legal drinking age, we don't want our students participating in activities that could do excessive harm to themselves or others...
...policy is currently under review. This type of situation is going to have us looking at our policies on what we do require," said Michelle D. Bowdler, director of Tufts Health Services...
...origin, is indeed part of the East-West rivalry. But a stark East-West emphasis obscures the deeper reasons for turmoil in the Central American isthmus (see following story). Much of the unrest in these countries stems from indigenous problems, most notably, as former State Department Official William Bowdler puts it, "the legacy of exploitation and abuse of the impoverished majority by the privileged few." By underplaying these factors, the U.S. often ends up backing regimes that turn out to be doomed-and perhaps deserve to be. Meanwhile, the Soviets benefit from having popular rebel movements pushed into their embraces...