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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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A Harvard study of college drinking showed that more than 40 percent of students indulge in binge drinking, which is defined as consuming five drinks at one sitting by men or four drinks by women.
Students who picked up binge drinking in college also were more likely than their peers to report inflated definitions of binge drinking and more permissive attitudes about appropriate ages for legal consumption.
Conclusions : Binge drinking can either be acquired or avoided in college among students who report they did not binge drink in high school.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Colleges are increasingly concerned about issues like binge drinking and are taking active steps to both curb problematic behavior and to educate students on how to make responsible choices.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Binge Drinking on Campus: Results of a National study - the findings of a survey of college student drinking recently completed by the Harvard School of Public Health.
Results : College students who reported that they were exposed to wet environments were more likely to engage in binge drinking than were their peers without similar exposures.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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I believe that the current drinking age fosters binge drinking on college campus' and dangerous behaviors by teens who resort to unsupervised partying because they are considered not responsible enough to handle alcohol.
College binge drinkers, or individuals drinking five or more drinks at one time, are more than twice as likely as non-binge drinkers to have experienced forced sexual touching and almost three times as likely to endure unwanted sexual intercourse.
Many who worry about such things as college drinking problems now worry that the image of the binge drinker featured so prominently in attempts to curb the problem of student drinking has in fact led some students to think that's what college students are supposed to do.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Colleges in localities where a number of key laws regulating underage drinking were in effect had significantly less underage drinking and binge drinking.
In addition, colleges in localities with key laws restricting the volume of alcohol sold or consumed also displayed lower rates of alcohol consumption and binge drinking among underage students.
Binge drinking has been identified by college administrators as the biggest problem facing higher education today and is linked to loss of life, date rape, violence and crime, as well as poor academic and athletic performance.
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