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...letter condemning the NCAA for allegedly promoting irresponsible or underage drinking through its advertisements, and recommending that the tournament eliminate all alcohol advertising. While we understand the sentiment, getting rid of beer ads is the wrong move. By airing the ads, the NCAA is not encouraging underage or binge drinking??or even endorsing drinking at all. The suggestion that the NCAA is expressing an opinion in favor of the products it allows to be advertised is absurd. Although the NCAA is certainly willing and within its rights to ban advertising that conflicts with its core principles...
...Binge drinking??a growing concern on many college campuses, including Harvard—is defined as consuming five or more standard drinks for men and four or more for women...
...agreement seems to mark a victory for Pilbeam and the administration, as the funding of alcohol—and the potential for underage drinking??was one of the central concerns that led Pilbeam to terminate the program initially...
...students would intentionally drink themselves into a 0.4 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and an emergency intubation. The policy, however, rides on the principal finding of the Committee on Social Clubs—a body established by Dean Gross—that declares “undergraduates view excessive drinking??as an accepted feature of college life, and do not appreciate the very real risks that this kind of behavior entails...
Harvard has a new tactic to combat college drinking??it’s called peer pressure. The brand new Office for Alcohol and Other Drug Services (AODS) has championed a “social norms” approach to alcohol abuse, theorizing that since “college students tend to grossly overestimate the number of their peers who engage in high-risk alcohol consumption,” providing data will correct this misconception and make people think twice before drinking. Great, except that if anyone stops and thinks twice at these numbers, it becomes abundantly clear that...