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...time of its publication, the study shifted the national media's focus to drinking and garnered attention for the study's coordinator, School of Public Health Lecturer Henry Wechsler. What concerns Wechsler--as well as many college officials--is that heavy drinking has been associated with health problems, car crashes, unsafe sex and aggressive behavior among college students. It was alcohol-induced "aggressive behavior" on our campus, for example, that influenced a senior linebacker on the football team to pummel a visiting high school recruit last year...
...recruit, who suffered a blowout fracture to his left eye, withdrew his application to Harvard. (Harvard was not included in Wechsler's study.) The D.U., where the fight took place, closed down this fall partly in response to the incident...
Understandably, Wechsler is concerned about incidents like the one at the D.U., where students' behavior is adversely affected by drinking...
...Wechsler's study, which defines binge drinking as consuming five drinks (four for women) at least once every two weeks on a single occasion, emphasizes the behavioral aspects of heavy drinking...
...Wechsler's work also made people (not just at Harvard) more acutely aware of how much fallout there is from binge drinking: in inconvenience to students, in inconvenience to roommates and friends, in violence and sexual assault, etc.," Nathans writes. "The College of course continues to hold students responsible for their behavior...