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CHICAGO?More than half of American
college students drank to get drunk
last year, and the number of binge
drinkers is virtually the same as it was
four years ago, according to a study
that was recently released by the Harvard
School of Public Health.
The survey of about 14,000 students
is the sequel to a 1993 analysis
of students' alcohol consumption.
Both studies were based on responses
from randomly chosen students
attending 130 colleges across the
country.
The latest report, published this
month in the Journal of American College
Health, shows that 52 percent of
students drank to get tanked in
1997, compared with 39 percent in
1993.
Overall, the number of students
who binge, defined as five drinks in a
row for men and four in a row for
women, dropped slightly, from 44.1
percent in 1993 to 42.7 percent last
year. i
However slight, that drop is basi- 1
cally the study's only bright spot, said
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The decrease, he said, could be
ittributed to a rising number of stulents
who abstain from drinking alogether.
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that they hadn't had a drink in
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Wechsler said more students might
>e abstaining because they're repulsed
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mwanted sexual advances and latelight
disturbances.
That makes sense to Dan Meade,
i senior at Georgetown University,
vho said his struggles with binging
irompted him to quit drinking more
han a year ago.
Meade said that decision has made
lis life "immeasurably better."
"I would get so drunk I'd black out
ind not remember a thing I'd done,"
le said.
"I had to make a lot of apologies to
leople for things I didn't remember.
it first, my drinking was largely United
to weekends ... then it started to
lurt my grades."
Both of Wechsler's studies say
he biggest beer guzzlers on campus
ire in fraternities and sororities, where
our of five students binge.
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Identifying the problem of binge
rinking is far simpler than finding
ays to stop it, Wechsler said.
And to make any change, everyone,
lcluding alumni who toddle back to
;ailgating parties on campus so they
in get intoxicated," needs to assume
isponsibihty in the fight against unealthy
drinking habits, he added.
Campuses shouldn't necessarily
an alcohol, just ensure that students
F age are drinking responsibly, he said.
"We have to know all the confuting
factors to this behavior: the
aternities, the tradition surrounding
thletics and the sale of alcohol for dirt
leap in bars and stores throughout
le community," Wechsler said.
"This is a call for college presidents
nd students to develop codes of beavior
that is acceptable on campus,
nd as people transgress those
ides, they have to be dealt with acirdingly."
The crafting of new policies should
e interesting, Wechsler said, noting
lat one in five students are frequent
inge drinkers, while another one in
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