Word: alcoholic
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Your editorial contributes to the perception that MIT is a hub for binge drinking. A little homework reveals how absurd that perception is. A 1998 study by Henry Wechsler, director of College Alcohol Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health, found binge drinking at MIT to be at about half the national average, at 23 percent. The study also found that about a third of MIT students do not drink, whereas only 19 percent abstain nationwide...
This punishment is the latest in a string of alcohol-related offenses at the institute...
Another MIT fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, closed last year after first-year pledge Scott Krueger died, reportedly because of alcohol he consumed at a Sept. 1997 party at the fraternity...
...members allegedly served alcohol to an under-aged prospective student. Following that incident--but before the latest one with the Wellesley student--the fraternity agreed with MIT to an alcohol-free probation period in return for being allowed to recruit first-years this fall...
...Fuller, I thought, was kind of pushing the envelope," Donahue said. "Our thinking was that Harvard ought to take a fairly strong anti-tobacco stance, just as in previous years it as adopted an anti-alcohol stance...