Word: drinkingness
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If the amount of drinking hasn’t increased, some say the kind of drinking has.
“Common opinion says that [the frequency of] drinking games has increased significantly,” says Paul J. Barreira, a psychiatry professor and director of Harvard University Health Services’ Department of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling, who added there is no data to support that...
Though he too suspects an increase in drinking, Co-Master of Currier House Joseph L. Badaracco recalls quite a bit of student binge drinking in his college days, but he says he’s seen evidence that even more happens today. “I think it?...
Indeed, some older Harvardians, such as Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, have noticed more heavy drinkers on campus today. “Binge drinking was not as common when I was a student,” he says. “On the other...
The 1978 release of Animal House may have been to blame for the change in drinking culture since Gross’ day. In September of that year, The Washington Post reported that the toga party, “this semester’s ritual of college exhibitionism,?...