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Every academic year brings stories of young men and women who drink until they die.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Just for the record, there's not a college in the country that encourages its students to down 24 shots in a sitting.
There's not a fraternity to be found that says it wants its would-be members to drink until they have to be wheeled home in shopping carts, until they wind up poisoned by alcohol, or comatose, or dead.
The colleges all have policies and alcohol education programs in place. Greek organizations take pains to educate their members on how to serve alcohol responsibly. It's a rare freshman who can escape the first two weeks of school without having the mantra of safety and responsibility drummed into his or her head by an administrator or peer counselor or resident adviser.
``We do a lot of education,'' said Shane McGoey, Drexel University's director of Greek life, who pointed to the alcohol awareness program that all freshmen receive in seminars during their first few weeks at…
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