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...study of first-year students in Massachusetts colleges, to be released tomorrow at a conference of college educators at the School, found that while many students wouldn't feel comfortable drinking alone, they weren't constrained from drinking in a crowd, said study director Henry Wechsler, a lecturer on social pyschology...
...Wechsler surveyed 1669 first-year students at 14 colleges in Massachusetts and found that about one-third of the men and a quarter of the women drank more than once a week...
...Wechsler found that almost all students who drink frequently are binge drinkers...
Comparing the results with a similar study he conducted in 1977, Wechsler found that the number of heavy drinkers remained the same. But the number of light drinkers was sharply down, he said...
...while about 15 percent of drinkers were classified as light drinkers in 1977, only 1 percent were in that category in the new study, Wechsler said. Abstainers increased from 3 percent to 12 percent...