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Alcohol use and underage drinking are unavoidable facts of college life. Students will find ways around rules meant to keep them away from watering holes, and the harder the College tries to enforce these rules, the deeper students will dig underground to find ways around them. By attempting to stamp out underage drinking, the College will instead push students farther away from the resources that can help them drink safely, resources that can save their lives...
...general, college students tend to grossly overestimate the number of their peers who engage in high-risk alcohol consumption, and Harvard is no exception. This misperception is believed to influence students to drink more heavily by changing their expectations surrounding drinking. In other words, students may feel pressured to drink because they believe that everyone else is doing it. The basic idea behind a social norms marketing campaign is to turn this dynamic around by using campus-based media to inform students about the more realistic levels of alcohol consumption among their peers. It is hypothesized that having accurate information...
...Thompson, director of the Hereford Cider Museum. On Oct. 15-16, over 1,000 people are expected to descend on the museum, a kilometer west of the city center (tel: [44-1432] 354207; www.cidermuseum.co.uk), for a festival at which visitors can taste up to 40 varieties of the alcoholic drink, ranging from finer, bottle-fermented sparkling cider to the rougher, cloudy and nonfiltered "scrumpy." The festival also provides a chance to learn a little bit about cider history: for example, orchards were once blessed with cider and decorated with corn dollies?ancient fertility figures that were supposed to ensure...
...Essay "How Bingeing Became the New College Sport" [Aug. 29], Barrett Seaman suggests that the drinking age be lowered to 18 or 19. Finally, an adult who has the right idea about teenagers! Too many of Seaman's peers think the problem of teenage drinking can be handled by making it illegal to drink until age 21. But any adult who assumes that a law can prevent teen drinking is naive. Teenagers, especially the 18- and 19-year-old group, do not need to be protected by adults; they need to be taught how to protect themselves. Maybe then...
...consumer packaged-goods company has promoted its wares using a nonaudio application. And recipe downloading is picking up steam. Chef Emeril Lagasse has launched 1,000 free iPod recipes, Enrique Quintero Design sells 260 recipes from an online PodGourmet database, and hip barflies are lapping up the iBar--downloadable drink recipes from Talking Panda. --By Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago