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...National media organizations have consistently leapt on Wechsler's findings as evidence of a widespread culture of self-destruction on college campuses, and Wechsler has been happy to oblige them with interviews and press releases...
...even more serious charge, they say Wechsler's strategy of emphasizing the extent of drinking on college campuses has backfired. Instead of reducing the level of college drinking, they say, Wechsler has convinced students that bingeing is socially acceptable and has actually increased the number of students who drink to excess...
...past seven years, Wechsler has appeared on "Nightline," "20/20," "Good Morning America," and the "NBC Morning Show." Garry Trudeau wrote about him in his "Doonesbury" comic strip, and Jay Leno quipped that it "took a Harvard researcher to find that college students drink...
...part because of his staggering statistics--his data shows that almost half of college students binge drink--Wechsler has been remarkably effective at stimulating a national discussion about college alcohol abuse...
...Despite the widespread publicity of his views, Wechsler's critics charge that his definition of binge drinking--five drinks for a man and four for a woman--is inherently flawed...