Drinking at college is a time-honored tradition. Like pulling an all-nighter. Cramming for a final. Or cutting class when spring warms the air. But today drinking habits are changing.
College students are drinking more than in the past, they are doing it more often and they’re doing it to get drunk. The result is more accidents, fatal ones, sexual assault, vandalism, riots, deaths, and lawsuits that inevitably follow. This month alone several riots, fueled by alcohol, broke out at universities, one in Massachusetts, another in Minnesota. And at least three students have died from alcohol poisoning. The latest a 19-year-old in Louisiana who downed a fifth of rum in just a few hours. You’ve heard of extreme sports. This is extreme drinking.
Guests:
Jim Clayton , co-coordinator Stepping Up program at University of Iowa
Armando Sanchez-Aballi of the Beer Industry of Florida
Myron Medcalf, student at Minnesota State University.