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51US: Reno Widens Search for University to Review FBI's Surveillance SystemThu, 24 Aug 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Foster, Andrea L. Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:08/24/2000

Attorney General Janet Reno announced Wednesday that the Justice Department will broaden the search for a university to serve as the official reviewer of Carnivore, a controversial electronic-surveillance system.

Earlier this month Assistant Attorney General Stephen Colgate, who will oversee the university review of Carnivore, said the Justice Department would choose an institution from a list of about 10. The institution will study the system to see that it works as planned and is not overly intrusive.

Ms. Reno had been expected to name the university this week. But instead she said that the search would be widened and the announcement would be delayed until September 15 in order to "make the selection as fair and equitable as possible."

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52US: Colleges Can Tell Parents About Students' Alcohol Or DrugFri, 07 Jul 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Burd, Stephen Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:07/07/2000

Colleges get broad latitude to reveal the results of disciplinary proceedings against students accused of violent crimes, and to notify parents if a student younger than 21 is caught drinking or using illegal drugs, under regulations the U.S. Education Department issued Thursday on federal student-privacy laws.

The rules, published in the Federal Register, carry out changes made by Congress in 1998 to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, as part of its review of the Higher Education Act.

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53US: Underage Students Can Get Alcohol Easily And CheaplyTue, 20 Jun 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Reisberg, Leo Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:06/20/2000

Although they're not old enough to drink legally, college students who are under 21 have easy access to alcohol and even pay less than older students do for their liquor, according to a new Harvard University study.

Underage students surveyed as part of the study said they found it "easy" or "very easy" to obtain alcohol inexpensively, and were more likely than those 21 or over to drink at fraternity parties and in dormitory rooms and other private settings.

The study, led by Henry Wechsler of the Harvard School of Public Health, found that 63 percent of underage students reported having had a drink in the past 30 days. And while they drank less frequently than older students, they were more likely to drink more per occasion.

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54US: Arrests At Colleges Surge For Alcohol And Drug ViolationsFri, 09 Jun 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Nicklin, Julie L. Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:06/06/2000

Experts Cite Tougher Enforcement And A Change In Federal Law

Alcohol arrests at the nation's colleges rose 24.3 percent in 1998, the largest increase in seven years. Arrests for violations of drug laws grew at their sharpest rate in three years, increasing 11.1 percent.

This marks the seventh consecutive year that arrests for liquor- and narcotics-law violations have gone up, according to an annual survey of campus crime by The Chronicle.

Liquor arrests grew nearly seven times as fast in 1998 as in 1997, when they edged up just 3.6 percent. And drug arrests experienced a much bigger jump in 1998 than in 1997, when they rose 7.2 percent.

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55US: The Latest Trend: Mixing Prescription Drugs With OtherFri, 09 Jun 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Nicklin, Julie L. Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:06/05/2000

Coming soon to a campus near you: Ritalin mixed with alcohol or heroin.

If the mixing of prescription drugs with alcohol or illegal drugs isn't already occurring on your campus, the odds are good that before long it will be, according to some college health officials and high-school drug counselors. Such concoctions have already caused the deaths of at least two college students in the last few years.

As prescription drugs like Ritalin, a stimulant typically used to treat attention-deficit disorder, and Valium, often used for anxiety, become more prevalent, more and more high-school students seem to be getting high by mixing them with each other, with alcohol, or with narcotics.

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56US: Arrests At US Colleges Surge For Alcohol And DrugMon, 05 Jun 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Nicklin, Julie L. Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:06/05/2000

Alcohol arrests at American colleges rose 24.3 percent in 1998, the largest increase in seven years. Arrests for violations of drug laws grew at their sharpest rate in three years, increasing 11.1 percent. This marks the seventh consecutive year that arrests for liquor- and narcotics-law violations have gone up, according to an annual survey of campus crime by The Chronicle.

Liquor arrests grew nearly seven times as fast in 1998 as in 1997, when they edged up just 3.6 percent. And drug arrests experienced a much bigger jump in 1998 than in 1997, when they rose 7.2 percent.

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57US: Avoiding the Obstacles: Studying AIDS Patients Who UseTue, 30 May 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Guterman, Lila Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:05/30/2000

One researcher chose not to leap the many hurdles to using the government's supply of marijuana to test the plant's medical benefits.

She decided to study people already smoking cannabis for medicinal purposes, who had procured the drug from their own sources.

Kathleen Boyle, a social psychologist at the Drug Abuse Research Center at the University of California at Los Angeles, is nearing completion of a study of 125 AIDS patients who smoke marijuana legally under California's Proposition 215, which exempts people from arrest for use and cultivation of the plant if their doctors recommend it. Many of the patients get their marijuana from the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that provides marijuana and support services to patients.

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58US: The Dope on Medical MarijuanaFri, 02 Jun 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Guterman, Lila Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:05/30/2000

Legend has it that the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung discovered the medicinal properties of marijuana almost 5,000 years ago, observing that it was not only psychoactive but useful for pain control. A physician in ancient Greece, Dioscorides, noted that cannabis could treat pain, rheumatism, and gout. Queen Victoria's physician recommended it for insomnia, migraines, menstrual cramps, and muscle spasms. One neurologist estimates that today, perhaps as many as 50,000 Americans with multiple sclerosis illegally smoke marijuana to alleviate their symptoms.

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59US: House Republicans Aim To Help Education Dept. Enforce LawTue, 23 May 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Burd, Stephen Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:05/23/2000

Washington

Because the Education Department has had so much trouble carrying out a law that denies federal student aid to people convicted of drug offenses, Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to introduce a bill this week to make the law easier to enforce.

The legislation would narrow the scope of the law by stating that only students who are convicted while in college and receiving aid could lose their eligibility for the funds. Under the current law, which goes into effect in July, the Education Department can deny federal aid to students who at any time have been convicted in state or federal court for possessing or selling drugs.

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60US NY: Government Drops Charges Against CUNY ProfessorMon, 01 May 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Leatherman, Courtney Area:New York Lines:Excerpt Added:05/01/2000

Federal prosecutors last week dismissed their charges against an anthropologist they had accused of embezzling grant money to buy heroin for research projects. But government officials said they would continue to investigate, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where the anthropologist is a tenured professor, promised to pursue its own complaints in an effort to fire him.

The local U.S. attorney's office had investigated Ansley Hamid for two years before finally charging him with embezzlement last October. Mr. Hamid, an associate professor at the college, a campus of the City University of New York, is an expert on drug cultures. He had denied the government's charges that he used federal funds to buy heroin for research subjects participating in his federally financed project, "Heroin in the 21st Century." Mr. Hamid further denied that he had used the drug himself and that he misspent federal money on, among other things, pleasure trips abroad.

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61US: In the Nation's Battle Against Drug Abuse, Scholars HaveFri, 21 Apr 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Miller, D.W. Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:04/21/2000

To an outsider, the drug-treatment wing of Delaware's Gander Hill prison seems part family, part regiment, and part kindergarten. The 240 or so men here are separated from the general inmate population so that they can think recovery all day, every day, for up to 18 months.

Overseen by a small counseling staff, the inmates assume job titles based on seniority and merit, and they manage their daily routine themselves. Each morning at 8, clad in white prison uniforms, they leave their dormitory for a motivational meeting that, says one inmate, "sets the tone for the day."

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62US: The Search For Drugs To Break The Cycle Of Drug AddictionFri, 21 Apr 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Guterman, Lila Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:04/21/2000

Like asthma and high blood pressure, drug addiction is a chronic disease and should be treated as such. That's the opinion held by a growing number of researchers. Detox is not enough, they say. Counseling may not suffice, either. Even after getting the drug out of their systems and receiving behavioral therapies, many recovering drug addicts may forever need a medication to help them fend off relapse.

The problem is, for addictions to most illicit drugs, such medications don't exist. And large pharmaceutical companies have shown little interest in developing medications that aren't likely to be profitable and may carry a stigma for the maker.

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63US: Addiction Is A ChoiceFri, 21 Apr 2000
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Ruark, Jennifer K. Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:04/21/2000

There is no such thing as an involuntary addiction, according to Mr. Schaler, a psychologist and adjunct professor of justice, law, and society at American University. People choose their addictions -- whether to opera, prayer, or heroin. The idea, which grew out of the temperance movement, that addiction is a disease "is the greatest medical hoax since the idea that masturbation would make you go blind," he writes.

Q. Doesn't the terrible physical experience of someone trying to quit heroin show that he is addicted and can't simply choose not to inject?

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64US PA: Lehigh U. Students Say New Alcohol PolicyTue, 09 Nov 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Lords, Erik Area:Pennsylvania Lines:Excerpt Added:11/10/1999

Students at Lehigh University are protesting a new alcohol policy that they say dampens spirit on the campus and leads to the abuse of other drugs, like ecstasy.

About 140 students rallied on Saturday and circulated a petition that demands changes in the university's Project IMPACT, which stands for Involving Multiple Partners in Achieving a Cultural Transformation. Designed to discourage binge drinking, the policy still allows legal-age drinking on the campus, but regulates the amount of alcohol at campus parties and requires that two university staff members monitor social events where alcohol is served.

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65US NY: Anthropologist Is Accused Of Using Grant To Buy HeroinWed, 27 Oct 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Schneider, Alison Area:New York Lines:Excerpt Added:11/02/1999

A City University of New York anthropologist who studies drug use was charged Monday with embezzling money from a federal grant to buy heroin for research subjects. The professor was also accused of using heroin while he was conducting a government-financed study of the drug and of misusing grant money for personal expenses.

After a two-year investigation, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York brought charges in federal court against Ansley Hamid, an associate professor of anthropology at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mr. Hamid, who has taught at John Jay for 15 years and has written extensively about drug culture and the use of crack cocaine, did not enter a plea. After surrendering his passport, he was released on $25,000 bond.

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66US WV: Education Dept Says College Omitted Incidents FromWed, 15 Sep 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Healy, Patrick Area:West Virginia Lines:Excerpt Added:09/15/1999

West Virginia Wesleyan College did not report 27 incidents of burglary and marijuana possession -- as well as one of aggravated assault -- on required federal tallies of campus crime between 1994 and 1996, according to U.S. Education Department investigators.

In a report sent to the college Thursday and made public this week, the department ordered West Virginia Wesleyan to review and tighten policies so all cases of crime are listed accurately and made known to students and the public.

West Virginia Wesleyan officials said Tuesday they objected to some of the findings and believed others were overly technical. They plan to respond next week to the department, which gave them until early October to take corrective steps.

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67US MA: 2 People Face Drug Charges In Connection With Death OfTue, 07 Sep 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Carlson, Scott Area:Massachusetts Lines:Excerpt Added:09/09/1999

Police officers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed drug-possession charges against two people Friday in connection with the death of a student from nitrous-oxide asphyxiation.

Susan Mosher, a senior at M.I.T., and Rene Ruiz, a recent M.I.T. graduate, were charged with possession with intent to distribute hallucinogenic mushrooms, amphetamines, marijuana, and nitrous oxide after those drugs were found in the dormitory room where Richard A. Guy died, police officials said. Mr. Guy, of Mission Viejo, Cal., asphyxiated while inhaling nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas. Ms. Mosher lived on the same floor as Mr. Guy.

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68US NC: Study of U. of North Carolina Students Suggests ThatSat, 14 Aug 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Reisberg, Leo Area:North Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:08/14/1999

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- in which researchers administered Breathalyzer tests to randomly selected students who were returning late at night to their dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and off-campus apartments -- suggests that reports of rampant collegiate drinking may be exaggerated.

Seventy-two per cent of the students tested had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.00, according to the study by the university's Highway Safety Research Center. Even on the traditional party nights of Thursday, 46riday, and Saturday, 66 per cent of the students had no detectable trace of alcohol in their blood; on other nights, the proportion of students with no alcohol was 86 per cent.

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69US: Rules Would Protect Counselor-Student Conversations About CrimesWed, 11 Aug 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Burd, Stephen Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:08/12/1999

Washington

Counselors would not have to inform campus-security officials about crimes they learn about in confidential sessions with students, under rules proposed by the U.S. Education Department on Tuesday.

Over the last year, college lobbyists have locked horns with representatives of watchdog groups over whether changes made during last year's renewal of the Higher Education Act exempted counselors from having to share information that students tell them in one-on-one sessions.

At issue is a sentence that Congress added to the law stating that the requirement that colleges publish detailed reports on campus crime every year should not "be construed to require the reporting or disclosure of privileged information."

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70US: Students Who Drink Heavily Are More Likely to Own Handguns, Study FindsTue, 06 Jul 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Reisberg, Leo Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:07/07/1999

As many as 400,000 American college students own handguns, and binge drinkers who drive or vandalize property while intoxicated are almost twice as likely as other students to have one, according to a new study by the Harvard University School of Public Health.

The findings, published in this month's issue of Journal of American College Health, are based on data collected in the 1997 College Alcohol Study. Harvard researchers surveyed 15,000 undergraduates from 130 four-year colleges about their drinking patterns. One question asked whether they owned a handgun.

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71US: Colleges Report Increases In Arrests For Drug And AlcoholSun, 06 Jun 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Nicklin, Julie L. Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:06/07/1999

Experts Differ On Whether Trends Reflect Tougher Enforcement Or More Substance Abuse

Arrests for violations of drug or alcohol laws at the nation's colleges and universities increased 7.2 per cent and 3.6 per cent, respectively, from 1996 to 1997.

The increases mark the sixth consecutive year that arrests for such violations have gone up, according to an annual campus crime survey by The Chronicle.

As in past years, many campus police officers and safety experts attribute the increases not to increased alcohol or drug use by students, but to more-aggressive enforcement efforts and toughened policies restricting drinking on campus. They also say many of the arrests involve outsiders who were visiting campus.

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72US MI: Mob Riots In East Lansing After Michigan State Falls InMon, 29 Mar 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:McDonald, Kim A. Area:Michigan Lines:Excerpt Added:03/29/1999

Michigan State University and the City of East Lansing vowed Sunday to punish students and others involved in an all-night rampage that included 61 fires and numerous acts of vandalism near the campus this weekend.

"It is my intention to take strong action for both on- and off-campus crimes," said M. Peter McPherson, president of the university. "All those found to have endangered the health and safety of our community will be punished to the fullest extent of the rules and the law."

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73US OH: After Pledge Dies, Case Western U Fraternities Declare Alcohol MoratoriumTue, 23 Feb 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Hughes, Jason Area:Ohio Lines:Excerpt Added:02/23/1999

Responding to the death of a freshman last week, all 17 fraternities at Case Western Reserve University have banned alcohol at parties for the next six weeks.

Fraternity leaders said the move was a gesture of respect to Stephen I. Donnelly, the Zeta Psi fraternity pledge who died last Monday from what Cuyahoga County Coroner's officials say were brain and skull injuries.

The 17 fraternity presidents, who voted Friday for the voluntary restrictions, say they'll use the time to review alcohol regulations at the university, said Glenn E. Nicholls, vice-president of student affairs at Case Western.

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74US VA: College President's Son Is Charged With Underage Drinking at Official ResMon, 22 Feb 1999
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Campbell, Paulette Walker Area:Virginia Lines:Excerpt Added:02/22/1999

The 18-year-old son of Christopher Newport University President Paul S. Trible, Jr., was charged Friday with underage possession of alcohol during a party at the president's state-owned home. The arrest of Paul S. Trible III comes six months after the college banned alcohol sales on its campus.

According to the Associated Press, there were at least 15 people at a party this month, all below the legal drinking age of 21. Several people ran from the house when the police arrived to break up the party, but Mr. Trible was among seven people cited. Mr. Trible's parents were not at home at the time of the party.

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75US VA: Police Chief At College In Virginia Says She Was OustedSun, 29 Nov 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Reisberg, Leo Area:Virginia Lines:Excerpt Added:11/29/1998

The police chief at Emory and Henry College, in Virginia, says she was fired last week because the administration feared that her strict enforcement of the campus ban on alcohol would anger alumni donors who enjoy tailgate parties at home football games.

"They got complaints from benefactors," Wallace Ballou, the fired chief, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She could not be reached for comment.

College officials denied that the police chief's crackdown on drinking had led to her termination.

"Those claims by her are exaggerated and have nothing to do with why she was dismissed," said Dirk S. Moore, a college spokesman. "All I can say is that the college has lost confidence in her ability to lead and direct the campus police force. In dismissing her, we had no dispute about the way she was enforcing the alcohol policy."

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76US: Study Finds A Sharp Rise In Smoking Among College StudentsThu, 19 Nov 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Haworth, Karla Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:11/19/1998

Washington

The smoking rate among students at four-year colleges rose by 28 per cent from 1993 to 1997, fueled in part by an increase in adolescent smoking in the 1990s, according to a study released Tuesday.

The smoking study, which appears in today's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, is part of the Harvard School of Public Health's College Alcohol Study. The project tracks drinking, smoking, and other high-risk behaviors of students at four-year colleges in the United States.

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77US: Alcohol Awareness Week Begins With Campaign to Fight BingeThu, 22 Oct 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Reisberg, Leo Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:10/22/1998

Two student leaders on Monday announced a new national campaign in which college students would encourage their peers to stop abusing alcohol. At the same time, a coalition of college groups released a set of recommendations on how campuses can combat binge drinking.

During a news conference here to mark the start of National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, two members of a peer-education network focusing on alcohol-abuse prevention launched a new campaign, "Not Here," an effort to unite students in preventing alcohol-related deaths.

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78US WA: Senate Resolution Calls For Colleges To Wage War On Binge DrinkingFri, 2 Oct 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Reisberg, Leo Area:Washington Lines:Excerpt Added:10/02/1998

The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday urging college administrators to take specific steps to combat binge drinking. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., calls for colleges and universities to appoint committees to set alcohol regulations, provide alcohol-free social activities, eliminate sponsorship by beverage companies of on-campus events, and enforce a zero-tolerance policy against underage drinking.

Growing numbers of colleges have already taken such steps, in response to a series of high-profile alcohol-related deaths on college campuses in recent years.

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79US VA: Virginia Tech President Suggests Battling StudentThu, 24 Sep 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Rolnick, Joshua Area:Virginia Lines:Excerpt Added:09/24/1998

The president of Virginia Tech has asked all faculty members to help curb alcohol abuse among students by ending the practice of giving less homework on weekends.

"The expectation of productive academic work over the weekend can also be very helpful in keeping students focused on their academic purposes," wrote the president, Paul E. Torgersen, in a memorandum he sent to all professors.

The memo urges faculty members to send the message "that the abuse of alcohol is not just a rite of passage to be tolerated." President Torgersen also warns professors to avoid remarks that appear to condone excessive drinking.

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80US VA: Virginia Tech President Suggests Battling StudentThu, 24 Sep 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Rolnick, Joshua Area:Virginia Lines:Excerpt Added:09/24/1998

The president of Virginia Tech has asked all faculty members to help curb alcohol abuse among students by ending the practice of giving less homework on weekends.

"The expectation of productive academic work over the weekend can also be very helpful in keeping students focused on their academic purposes," wrote the president, Paul E. Torgersen, in a memorandum he sent to all professors.

The memo urges faculty members to send the message "that the abuse of alcohol is not just a rite of passage to be tolerated." President Torgersen also warns professors to avoid remarks that appear to condone excessive drinking.

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81US: More Students Abstaining From Alcohol, Study FindsSat, 12 Sep 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US)          Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:09/12/1998

More college students are saying No to alcohol than did five years ago, but of those who don't abstain, more are drinking "to get drunk," according to a survey released Thursday by the Harvard University School of Public Health.

The report, published in this month's issue of the Journal of American College Health, is a follow-up to a much-cited 1993 study of college drinking, which prompted many institutions to re-evaluate their alcohol policies.

The new findings are based on the responses of 14,521 students at 116 colleges who were surveyed in the spring of 1997.

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82US: Chemical In Fluoridated Water May Cause Violent BehaviorTue, 8 Sep 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Kiernan, Vincent Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:09/08/1998

A chemical used to fluoridate the drinking water of 150 million Americans may unwittingly foster violent behavior and cocaine use in some of those who drink the water, a scholar said Friday at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences.

Communities that use a fluoridation agent known as silicofluoride have higher rates of violent crime than communities that use an alternative method or do not fluoridate their water, said Roger D. Masters, an emeritus professor of government at Dartmouth College.

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83New Zealand: New Zealand Urges Student Drinkers To 'Just Say Forget It'Fri, 31 Jul 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Cohen, David Area:New Zealand Lines:Excerpt Added:07/31/1998

Universities use ad campaigns to combat a long-standing tradition in the country

It isn't often that a university's motto causes public-health officials to frown. So why does "A Degree in Distinction," the University of Otago's slogan, have that effect? Because Distinction happens to be the brand name of a beer that enjoys enormous popularity on campuses here and is a staple at binge-drinking parties.

"In the minds of many young New Zealanders," says Karen Elliot, a health educator employed by the government to promote the responsible use of alcohol by students, "that kind of unfortunate verbal association is less humorous than it is a matter of fact." She says that at the University of Otago, as at most other New Zealand institutions, "the traditional student mindset has been that university is somewhere you go to party hard -- a place where young people learn to get drunk."

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84US: Shaping the Drug Policies of a Country Known for Its Liberal ApproachMon, 27 Jul 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Bollag, Burton Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:07/27/1998

At the Green House coffee shop, you can buy marijuana and hashish in little plastic bags for $12 at the bar. Or you can get a joint from the wall-mounted "Reefer" dispensing machine. Across the street, the Laughing Pope shop sells "organic drugs" -- psychedelic mushrooms and two dozen varieties of cannabis. It's all legal.

With his shoulder-length hair and baggy cotton pants, Peter Blanken looks at home in this Haight-Ashbury-ish neighborhood in the Netherlands' second-biggest city. In fact, he runs an unusual research project, which gathers data on the city's hard-drug subculture in its native setting. He works for the Addiction Research Institute of Rotterdam, a cooperative effort of Erasmus University, the city health service, and two foundations.

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85US OH & WA: Students at Miami U. in Ohio Clash with Police After Bars CloseTue, 12 May 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US)          Area:Ohio Lines:Excerpt Added:05/12/1998

Alcohol-related violence by college students continued this weekend, as police in Oxford, Ohio, made 39 arrests over two nights of mayhem by Miami University students. Meanwhile, in Pullman, Wash., police opened a World-Wide Web site to help identify Washington State University students who had taken part in a riot on May 3.

Lieut. Daniel Umbstead, acting chief of the Oxford Police Department, said that about 500 students had started damaging property and throwing beer cans and bottles at police shortly after the bars in Oxford closed on Friday and Saturday, at 2 a.m. The students were celebrating the end of final examinations. About 20 police officers were able to disperse the crowds in under an hour both nights, he said. One officer suffered minor injuries when he was hit in the hand by a flying bottle.

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86US: Student Rioters Demand the 'Right to Party'Tue, 12 May 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US)          Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:05/12/1998

It's being called the "Right to Party" movement.

On several campuses in recent weeks, large groups of students have clashed with police on a scale not seen since the Vietnam War protests of a generation ago.

This time, the protests are over alcohol. The continuing toll of alcohol-related deaths on campus is prompting colleges to crack down against underage and irresponsible drinking -- and students are not taking it well.

They are fighting for the right to drink in familiar areas and during traditionalparty weekends. They are demanding to be permitted to drink even though most of them are not of legal age. They want to drink when they have previously agreed that they will not drink, and they want to drink when the clock says No.

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87US: Some Experts Say Colleges Share the Responsibility for the Recent RiotsTue, 12 May 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Reisberg, Leo Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:05/12/1998

Although many people are quick to chastise the students involved in recent riots in several states, colleges share some of the blame, according to administrators and alcohol experts.

For many years, college officials looked the other way when underage students drank. But a string of high-profile, alcohol-related deaths in recent years -- including one last fall at Louisiana State University, and another at Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- has prompted colleges to crack down on minors who drink. Alcohol arrests on college campuses jumped by 10 per cent in 1996, the latest year for which data are available, according to a recent survey by The Chronicle (May 8).

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88US MI: At Michigan State, a Protest Escalates Into a Night of Fires, Tear Gas, aTue, 12 May 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Lively, Kit Area:Michigan Lines:Excerpt Added:05/12/1998

AT MICHIGAN STATE, A PROTEST ESCALATES INTO A NIGHT OF FIRES, TEAR GAS, AND ARRESTS

EAST LANSING, MICH. - Many people at Michigan State University expected something big to happen at Munn Field on the night of May 1. They just didn't know what.

E-mail messages had been flying all week, urging people to gather at Munn to protest the administration's recent decision to ban alcohol there during footballseason. The open, grassy field is a popular spot for students and some alumni to gather for tailgate parties on game days.

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89US CT: At Connecticut's Party Weekend, Days of Music Replaced by Nights of VandaTue, 12 May 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Gose, Ben Area:Connecticut Lines:Excerpt Added:05/12/1998

AT CONNECTICUT'S PARTY WEEKEND, DAYS OF MUSIC REPLACED BY NIGHTS OF VANDALISM

STORRS, CONN.- The 80 police officers did not move last month as bottles, cans, and rocks were lobbed at them by a crowd of students and their friends partying in a dirt parking lot that adjoins the University of Connecticut campus.

When some in the crowd of 2,000 people overturned a black Honda Accord, the police, from university, local, and state forces, stood their ground. Even when some men set a couch on fire, the police remained on the edge of the lot.

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90US AR: 11 Students Arrested for Drug Dealing at U. of Arkansas at FayettevilleTue, 03 Mar 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Selingo, Jeffrey Area:Arkansas Lines:Excerpt Added:03/03/1998

A six-week undercover investigation into drug dealing at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville led to the arrests last week of 14 people, 11 of them students.

The arrests came after two young police officers from a state drug task force moved into dormitories and posed as students.

The university police asked the drug task force for help after finding that drug dealing had increased in three dormitories last semester. John White, the university's chancellor, approved the undercover operation, said Julie Kegley, a spokeswoman for the institution.

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91US: Students Who Use Drugs or Alcohol Found More Likely to Suffer ViolenceSun, 22 Feb 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US)          Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:02/22/1998

College students who use drugs or alcohol are more likely to become victims of physical violence, according to a report released Thursday by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Researchers at the institute analyzed questionnaires from 89,874 students at 171 U.S. colleges, and found that 43 per cent of the students reported that during the previous year they had been victims of various forms of violence, including physical and sexual assault and ethnic and racial harassment. Sixty-four percent of the physical-assault victims said they had been under the influence of alcohol or drugs when they were attacked, as did 79 per cent of those who were sexually assaulted.

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92US: Congressional Panel Releases Documents Linking Tobacco Companies and ScientiSun, 18 Jan 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US) Author:Lederman, Douglas Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:01/18/1998

Many Of The Studies Were Not Peer Reviewed And Were Designed To Understate The Dangers Of Smoking

WASHINGTON - A House of Representatives committee last month released thousands of pages of subpoenaed documents that shed new light on a long-running campaign by the tobacco industry to quietly influence -- and sometimes suppress -- scientific research on the health-related effects of tobacco.

That tobacco companies sponsored academic research is not a surprise; the industry has long acknowledged using separately incorporated groups to finance studies that were peer reviewed and, in many cases, scientifically sound.

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93US: Colleges Eye Restrictions on Promotions by Brewing CompaniesSun, 18 Jan 1998
Source:Chronicle of Higher Education, The (US)          Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:01/18/1998

But Lucrative Advertising On Televised Games Is Unlikely To Be Stopped

When McKinley Boston was director of men's athletics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 1994, he negotiated a contract with the Miller Brewing Company that allowed the brewer to install signs in the university's athletics arenas and to use Minnesota's mascot, the Golden Gopher, in the company's advertising.

That contract, worth $150,000, expired in June. This past fall, the university's athletics department asked Dr. Boston, who is now vice-president for student development and intercollegiate athletics of the university system, about signing a similar contract, worth $225,000, with a different brewer.

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