NDSU debuts plan to curb student drinking

By Mila Koumpilova

"North Dakota State University is taking a multipronged approach to curbing campus alcohol and drug use in a long-term plan it rolled out Tuesday. ..."

"The approach, which has shown much promise on other campuses, deploys a battery of measures, from a new online alcohol education course for all incoming freshmen to more dry late-night campus events. ..."

"The unveiling of the $50,000-per-year plan, two years in the making, follows a spate of alcohol-related arrests of NDSU football players. Among a slew of goals, the plan shoots for reducing the percentage of NDSU students who binge drink - that's five or more drinks at a sitting at least once in the past two weeks - from 51 percent to 48.5 percent by 2012. ..."

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