They come here and they're exposed to alcohol in much greater quantities. There are a lot of things going on, but no given event attracts a lot of people. It's the herd mentality. If everybody's going to the party, you want to go to the party. For lack of company, you end up going where the company goes.
Students also say they often get mixed messages.
Student Government President Lisa Zeidner, one of three students at the meeting Monday, raised the question of what role students' use of alcohol has in relation to the rest of the university community. Duke is open to learning from other institutions' successes, Dickerson made clear in her meeting this week. Nationally, two in five students binge drink defined as consuming five or more drinks in a row for men and four for women at least once in a two-week period. These students experience a higher rate of various educational, social, and health problems than their non-binging peers. Half of the students who binge drink do so more than once a week.