Grant received to study binge drinking
LSU has received a nationally sought-after grant worth $700,468 over five years to study binge drinking among the nation's college and university students. The grant will enable LSU to work toward a solution to the national problem of binge, or "high-risk," drinking.
LSU is one of only four universities in the U.S. to receive the grant in 1998 and one of two to be funded at this level.
The grant program, "A Matter of Degree: The National Effort to Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among College Students," works to curb binge drinking by changing norms, attitudes, policies and practices affecting students and their drinking habits on and off campus.
The grant is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J., and is administered through the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse at the American Medical Association, headquartered in Chicago. Six other universities received similar funding in 1996. The universities involved in the project are working with local community organizations, as well as statewide and national groups to address the problem.
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nanny state
Not nanny State. Historically, Universities had always been required to act "in Loco parentis" and advising you that binge drinking is bad, is something your mother would do....