Students should also learn to find the courage to intervene if they see someone putting themself at risk. Tell students to intervene when classmates are in trouble with alcohol. Many students die because others fail to realize they are in trouble. If someone is drunk enough to pass out, they are drunk enough to die of alcohol poisoning. Tell students to stand up for their right to a safe academic environment.
Students can confront the offender directly, or talk to the resident assistant or hall director.
Know the alcohol scene on campus and talk to students about it. Students tend to exaggerate the drinking that goes on on campus. The Core Alcohol and Drug Survey found that 36 percent of Otterbein College students thought the average student drank at least once a week, when the actual rate was 13 percent. Avoid tales of drinking exploits from your college years. Realize that the drinking going on in college today is not done for the same reasons that it was done twenty years ago.