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It's also a reaction to squeezing of alcohol policies that lend itself to fast drinking in dorm rooms before leaving and the banning of kegs.
What's ironic is that we're seeing on colleges a reproduction of what happened during prohibition. Extreme rise in risky and unhealthy drinking patterns, rather than a reduction in alcohol consumption.
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I support this 100%. This American Life did a whole show called "#1 Party School", not a very flattering picture of Penn State life, but what struck me was the beer distributor, who traced the beginning of a lot of the alcohol problems to the rules against kegs at parties.
We didn't pre-game, and NO ONE ended up in the hospital. We drank beer (sometimes too much) but it never got so bad that we poisoned ourselves or relieved ourselves in the townies' shrubbery.