As many students will eventually die of alcohol-related causes as will eventually get their masters and doctors degrees. College presidents cited alcohol abuse as the campus life issue of greatest concern. College students consume an estimated 430 million gallons of beer, wine and liquor per year. This is enough alcohol to fill 3,300 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Alcohol use is one of the highest predicators of a college woman's rape.
The U.C Berkeley Police Department said that every reported acquaintance rape on campus in a two year period involved the use of alcohol by one or both people. Alcohol is advertised by the media as an accompaniment to sexual activity and as something that increases sexual attractiveness. Instances have been noted where college men engineered parties with the goal of getting women drunk so that the women would be unable to refuse sex. Women become drunk faster than men because their stomachs have less of a certain enzyme which neutralizes alcohol, so more alcohol enters the bloodstream. Johnston, Lloyd D., et.