Do Colleges Tolerate Binging?

Colleges Tolerate Binging

An "Animal House" mentality still prevalis on may college campuses, and hinders prevention efforts aimed at binge drinking. UPI reported April 21. A study by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Harvard School of Public Health found that colleges are more tolerant of binge drinking than the rest of society and sometimes hae traditions that encourage heavy drinking. Researchers also found that increasing federal excise taxes on alcohol would not do much to decrease drinking among college students, but that a crackdown on drunk driving probably would. More than 16,000 college students participated in the study.