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BOSTON (AP) — More col
lege students are living in sub
stance-free residence halls, and
fewer recall drinking to excess
while in high school. Yet binge
drinking on college campuses is
still as common as it was in the
early 1990s, a new Harvard
study shows.
The survey by the Harvard
School of Public Health found
44 percent of college students
admitted binge drinking within
the previous two weeks — the
same percentage found in a
1993 study.
“It’s part of the American
college culture,” Nicholas
Pasquale, 20, a sophomore at
Boston University, said
Sunday. “I don’t know of any
college where a large part of
the student body isn’t drinking
on weekends.”
Flier
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interest of student government or class
councils,” Sarandis said.
All candidates must submit their cam
paign materials to the commission for
approval. Dubberly alleged the practice is a
blatant violation of candidates’ free speech
rights, and refused to take down his flyers.
“They (election commission) knew
what they were doing was unlawful,”
Dubberly said.
Sarandis declined to discuss why she
reversed her decision, but said she was sat
isfied with Dubberly’s explanation of why
the flier's content was not inappropriate.
“Its an ongoing process,” Sarandis said.
“If candidates feel that certain fines were
unfair, they can always come talk to me and
we’ll work through it.”
More than 30 of the 125 candidates in
the student election have submitted cam
paign material with inappropriate content,
Sarandis said. Dubberly is the only candi
date to have fines dropped and previously
censored campaign material approved
However, the survey also
found that universities had
made efforts over the past
decade to change that culture.
About 65 percent more col
lege students said they were liv
ing in substance-free residence
halls and being exposed to alco
hol awareness education. Also,
fewer students said they were
members of fraternities and
sororities, where reported binge
drinking rates have been the
highest. A growing number of
students said they abstain from
drinking altogether — 19.3 per
cent, up from 16.4 percent eight
years ago.
Kelilah Miller, 19, a Boston
University freshman, said she
does not hang around with peo
ple who drink and questioned
how much of a public health
issue binge drinking is.
“What’s society’s responsi
bility to protect people from
themselves?” she asked.
The Harvard survey ques
tioned 10,000 students at 119
four-year colleges, and defined
binge drinking as four or more
drinks in a row for women, or
five or more for men.
Out of the traditional col
lege students who drink — 18-
to 23-year-olds not living with
their parents — seven out of 10
said they had met that defini
tion of binge drinking in the
past 30 days.
“That’s a staggering num
ber,” said Henry Wechsler,
director of College Alcohol
Studies at Harvard School of
Public Health and lead investi
gator on the study.
“Before, we didn’t see posi
tive trends at the same time as
the continuation of the be?
rate,” Wechsler said Frii
“We didn’t see this kind
ill' >gical presence of trend 1 ;!:
should lead to lower rates aril
continuing high rate.”
“This, to us, indicates
strong forces are continuing!
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campus,” he said. "Thosef
tors need to be addressed!
policies that colleges take."
The University of Vermo
Burlington, one of 10 colit
taking part in an Ameri
Medical Association-led in
live to curb binge drinki
found when it joined the
gram in 1997 that 65 percer
all students admitted
drinking, said Anii
Flewelling, director of thei
versity’s program. That nun
is now at 64 percent.
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without having to revise the flier's content,
Sarandis said.
The leaflet in question contains the text
“Who’s your daddy? Me. And I make damn
cool t-shirts. Pimpin’ for the best damn
u
I hope other candidates
stand up against this
censorship and that they
change this rule for
future Aggies.
— Shannon Dubberly
2004 Vice President candidate
class...fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 2004.”
Sarandis said that at the outset of the
campaign candidates were informed that
curse words, including “damn” and “hell”
would be censored, along with sexual innu
endo and trademark violations. Election
rules adopted by the student senate do not
include any guidelines for censoring cam
paign materials, leaving the election coni]
missioner with complete discretion
determine what is appropriate.
Dubberly said the commission’s deci j
sion underscores the unfairness and
trary nature of the campaign rules. Medii
attention and public pressure forced ikj
commission to do the right thins
Dubberly said, but the commission contin j
ues to violate the free speech rights
other candidates.
“I hope other candidates stand up*
against this censorship and that they change
this rule for future Aggies,” Dubberly said
Dubberly said he had been contacted h
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLUi
lawyers who offered to file an injunction in
federal court to prevent the election commis
sion from disqualifying him, and added tta
the ACLU stood ready to defend other candi
dates who wanted to challenge the election |
commission’s censorship.
The issues raised by this controvers)
may prompt the student senate to examine
anti consider revising the election rules,
Sarandis said.
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of the student body as possible
when finding something the
students will accept, she said.
She hopes to give students a
chance to speak at forums and
have representatives on a com
mittee to work with student
leaders in finding an activity
that will build leadership.
“Bonfire has definitely left a
hole on our campus, and it’s
important to fill that, not with
another tradition, but with
activities that can build leader
ship and provide the meaning
that was behind Bonfire,”
Pringle said.
SBP candidate Zac
Coventry plans to do whatever
he can to work actively for the
safe return of the tradition to
Texas A&M. He said he under
stands from experience what
Bonfire was and what it repre
sented from working on the
stack.
“I am absolutely passionate
about the Fightin’ Texas Aggie
Bonfire,” Coventry said. “It rep
resents the undying spirit that all
Aggies have for Texas A&M.”
The possible initial return
of Bonfire may not be exactly
what students remember or
are hoping for, but Coventry
believes that the process will
be one of give-and-take, mak
ing a reference to playing
dominoes. You don’t win in
one hand, he said, you get a
little bit at a time.
The best opportunity
bring back Bonfire will be
start with a clean slate and
remake the tradition, said
Coventry, a senior agricultural
development major. He hones
to
to
to involve a greater number of
students from throughout the
A&M student body.
Although students and stu
dent government working
together will be essential in
reviving the tradition, the new
University president, along
with the administration, will
play a key role in the future of
Bonfire, Coventry said.
“I think we need to wait and
see who the new administration
is and then adapt to that and
decide our approach,” he said.
Coventry is excited about
the possibility of Bonfire’s
return in 2003 and has collabo
rated with current and former
students about ways to reduce
the risk factor by using safer
methods. For 2002, however,
he has come up with a compe
tition he calls the “Old Army
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