Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Traditionally, we see drinking in college as a rite of passage. It is condoned in a covert way," Valle says, adding that people who drink heavily in college should ask themselves, "`Is this something I'm going to grow up with...
Wechsler says that 90 percent of American college students drink, but adds that that figure should not be surprising. Drinking increases as students approach their 20s, but decreases later, he says, making people between the ages of 18 and 24 the heaviest drinkers in the general population...
What is surprising, Wechsler says, is the number of heavy drinkers in college. "They drink it all at once and become intoxicated and are prone to get into the trouble intoxicated people get into," he says...
Wechsler co-wrote a 1981 study surveying 7083 New England college students about their drinking habits. The study showed that a high percentage of college students who drink excessively have suffered some of the consequences of alcohol abuse. The study shows that the 242 college males who were classified as "frequent-heavy drinkers" reported, on the whole, drinking more than four drinks or five cans of beer in one sitting...
...College Life Survey conducted last spring at Harvard found that 59 percent of students responding said they had one to four drinks when they drink. Twenty-one percent report having five to nine drinks at a time, while 3 percent have 10 or more. The survey found that 29 percent of those responding felt that Harvard students drink too much...