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This is the hangover:
"Dartmouth College tackles binge drinking culture; In two years, a dramatic drop in hospitalizations" by Marcella Bombardieri | Globe Staff, July 28, 2013
HANOVER, N.H. — It is the school that inspired the movie “Animal House,” that classic paean to fraternity hijinks.
That was on one of the movie channels this morning, and I watched it before coming up here, just out of nostalgia.
Am I allowed that?
Its students are said to have invented the ubiquitous drinking game of beer pong. Last year, the college drew international attention for a former fraternity member’s sensational exposé on alcohol-fueled hazing.
I don't know what are these new-fangled kids drinking games, and I don't drink.
And yet, Dartmouth College has in the past two years become a national leader in trying to reduce binge drinking, making many changes on campus, large and small, and founding a national collaborative to share ideas among dozens of campuses.
Even more striking, students have spurred some of the innovations, such as sending sober undergraduates to monitor parties for signs of trouble, and coming this fall, banning freshmen from fraternity parties for the first six weeks of school.
Officials see encouraging signs, especially the dramatic drop in the number of students taken to the hospital with blood-alcohol levels of more than 0.25 percent — more than three times the legal limit to drive. That number fell to 31 students this academic year from 80 two years earlier.
Dartmouth’s is a modest approach, based on small experiments with a few students. No one claims, after generations of struggle with the role of alcohol on college campuses, to have discovered the magic formula to make students just say no....
Two years ago, Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth’s then-president, founded the National College Health Improvement Program, bringing together 32 universities, including Brown, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Vermont, to address binge drinking. It uses methods that Kim had seen, during his public health career, making inroads battling HIV and tuberculosis in the Third World....
Instead of lectures in an auditorium during freshman orientation — not shown to be very effective — every athlete, anyone visiting the infirmary who acknowledges heavy drinking, and any student with an alcohol infraction now gets a confidential talk about alcohol use, using methods based in research.
Underage partying in dorms has long been against the rules, but residence hall advisers, undergraduates themselves, often looked the other way. Now, they have a clear mandate to break up pregaming, the intense drinking sessions that frequently precede a night out.
Many students and staff adamantly deny that Dartmouth is more of a party school than most....
Isn't there some sort of ranking?
But there is no denying that some students engage in extreme and dangerous drinking.
In January 2012, Dartmouth was engulfed in controversy over hazing allegations by student Andrew Lohse that included fraternity pledges being asked to swim in a kiddie pool filled with human waste.
A quarter of the faculty called for an end to single-sex Greek organizations, and Kim was blasted for suggesting he was powerless to change fraternity culture. Within months, he left to head the World Bank.
Related: Kim Can't See Through the Haze
There is wide concern in Hanover that alcohol fuels not only hazing but sexual assault and discrimination. This spring, the campus was shaken by protests that Dartmouth has not properly addressed sexual assaults, racism, and homophobia. Vitriol against the protesters got so extreme that Dartmouth had to cancel classes for a day to discuss community respect.
Sorry to say it, but when you have a Zionist-run government mouthpiece of a media doing everything it can to distract and divert us into fighting each other over fringe issues, these things are going to happen.
Either that or we have controlled protests on our hands to initiate the time-tested problem-reaction-solution method of mind-manipulation and citizen control.
Last week, the federal Department of Education said it is investigating how Dartmouth handles sexual assault....
That's when I passed out.
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Where the hell am I?
