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Originally posted by damasa
Can you let us know where they got those stats? I don't know what campus they studied by it seems the data might be somewhat off. Maybe not, but it seems anyway, because many of my brothers including myself still drink, but not hardly as much as we did before we were greek. It's usually maybe one or two nights a week, not everynight when we were first semester freshman...
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Sure, Damasa...let's see, it's in my Sociology: Seventh Edition by Richard T. Schafer. The study on college binge drinking is in chapter 7: Deviance and Social Control. There's an entire page devoted to this, and it has big quotes like "most fraternity and sorority members are binge drinkers" (ugh) along with a chart of who among college students are binge drinkers. The chart shows that 51% of men are, 40% of women, 45% of people living in residency halls, 79% of people living in fraternities and sororities, 47% under age 24, and 28% over age 24. There is a small note that this was based on a national survey of more than 14,000 college students in 1999. "Binge drinking is defined as one drinking session of at least five drinks for men or four drinks for women during the two weeks prior to the self-administered questionnaire." The source: Wechsler et. al. 2000:23.