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Seriously, James, I was struck by this at a party I went to last night. The freshmen were all falling-down drunk and slurring, and the older kids were all just chilling and having a good time. At first I wrote this off to freshmen not knowing their tolerance levels, trying to drink more to keep up with the big kids -- and then I helped my friend behind the bar for a while and realized that it was because the older kids were all sticking to beer, whereas the freshmen were mixing all their beer-drinking with shots of tequila and whiskey. I chatted with a bunch of people there who were my age and they were all like, "I don't do shots anymore -- somewhere around sophomore year I stopped doing them."
Of course, sometimes this is difficult to limit -- sorority parties often take place at bars, so I'm not sure that you could officially limit people to wine and beer. And it doesn't eliminate the more-common problem of people having too much to drink and falling down stairs or out windows. In fact, most alcohol-poisoning stories occur during hazing, not parties, right? But it's still something to keep in mind.
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