White Males Cause Binge Drinking
Harvard said it. Must be true.
Greater diversity on college campuses significantly lowers rates of binge drinking among high-risk students, according to results of a Harvard University study released on Thursday.The research may enable college administrators to fine-tune their admissions and housing policies to cut rates of binge drinking, study authors said.
"If you have younger white males together to the exclusion of other groups, you're going to have fewer role models for lighter or nondrinking behavior," Henry Wechsler, the study's lead author, told Reuters. "That may explain why fraternities have had such a high level of drinking problems."
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Previous studies have shown that binge-drinking rates vary greatly among certain student subgroups. For example, African- and Asian-American, female and older students have lower rates of binge drinking than do white, male and younger students.
[emphasis mine]
But I thought affirmative action was A Very Bad Thing....
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When Fark linked to this story, they gave it an "UNLIKELY" tag, which is pretty much my own reaction to it.
I mean, frat boys = binge drinking for as far back as I can remember, and changing the color ratio shouldn't make much difference.
Kim du Toit says that white males binge drink and date rape because the rest of us are trying to "pussify" them.
Go to Michele's. You'll see it.
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