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Such misconceptions—most common among freshmen, according to the study—can make students feel pressure to drink more than they can handle...
Travia calls it the “social norms” marketing campaign—a branch of the national program of the same name (the National Social Norms Resource Center) that has been administered in universities across the country. This new effort in the battle to tame dangerous drinking habits is based on the idea that most college students overestimate how often, and how much, their peers actually drink. If students knew the facts, Travia says, they would feel less pressure to engage in risky behaviors...
...social norms approach was given a boost late last summer when H. Wesley Perkins, an anthropology professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, published a study with two colleagues saying that over 70 percent of students nationwide think their peers drink more than they actually do. At schools where people drank an average of four drinks when they “partied,” according to the study, 37 percent of students reported a belief that their peers’ drank an average of five to six drinks, and 34.9 percent overestimated to the tune of seven drinks...
...Wally’s has been hosting some of the best jazz in Boston for nearly 60 years. The busy but cheerful bartenders are quick with the reasonably priced booze. Better yet, there is never a cover charge or a drink minimum. All you have to do is stroll up, prove you’re 21, and sit down for 5 minutes or 3 hours to soak up the talents of young up-and-comers...
...jazzhounds will be satisfied. The stage is about as roomy as the rest of the place, meaning that the enormously appreciative audience might as well be in the drummer’s lap. “Audience participation,” more often than not, means spilling your drink on the bandleader’s shoes...