Dartmouth president leading campaign against binge drinking

By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz

"More than 1,800 college students die each year from alcohol-related causes, and about 600,000 others are injured while under the influence. Excessive drinking also leads to unsafe sex, sexual abuse and academic problems. Nearly 40 percent of college students engage in binge drinking."

"To Jim Yong Kim , who has been president of Dartmouth College since July 2009, those statistics amount to an epidemic, and he has lined up 31 other colleges and universities — including one in Texas, Southern Methodist University — to attack it in a methodical, data-driven fashion. Representatives of the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking met last week at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Austin to compare notes and strategies. ..."

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