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University Requires Class in Alcohol Education

By erink

Kansas University will be adding another requirement this year for some students. New students under the age of 22 will be required to take a two hour course on the affects and dangers of alcohol. The class is part of the initiatives the University is taking after two students died in unrelated alcohol incidents last spring from underage binge drinking. University officials believe the course is realistic because it assumes that most students do drink, regardless of age. The class teaches students about the affects alcohol consumption has on the body and decision-making abilities. “It’s not, if you will, a message of abstinence, because, I think we are realistic that telling students not to drink at all probably isn’t as helpful as saying this is how you can be safe,” Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success, told the press...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).