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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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July 30, 2006
College Students Can Drink Responsibly if Left Alone, Study Finds
Despite campus campaigns to crack down on underage drinking, college students continue to drink, but they have devised ways to do so safely, according to the results of a survey released last week by the National Social Norms Resource Center. And the center regards those safety-minded techniques as an endorsement of its social-norms approach, which says punitive action to control alcohol abuse is ineffective but says methods to persuade students to drink responsibly can work.
Among the “protective behaviors” that the survey found many students have adopted are avoiding drinking games, downing no more than one drink per hour, using a designated driver, watching out for classmates who have had too much, and, sometimes, not drinking at all.
The implication of the findings is that, left to their own devices and without the oppressive overlay of campus alcohol bans, students will choose to be moderate, responsible drinkers and will, as a result, stay out of trouble. College officials should simply do what they can to encourage students to adopt more of those protective behaviors.
The results come from a survey of 28,000 students by the American College Health Association, and the center’s report on them will be published in the September/October issue of the Journal of American College Health.
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