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Over the weekend, Joanie Baker Hendricks of the Bowling Green Daily News spoke to Kevin Smiley, the student body president at Western Kentucky University, who recently signed on to [CR]’s Get REAL campaign. ...

As we approach the holiday season, it’s important to remember that this time of year sees heavy traffic on the roads and higher risks for drunken driving accidents. ...

The editors of Penn State’s student newspaper, the Daily Collegian, recently took on the issue of the drinking age, saying that they would “like to see serious dialogue about the merits of the drinking age of 21.” Their editorial concludes, “Stricter enforcement, better treatment and more educati...

Over the weekend, Tonia Moxley of the Roanoke Times published another installment of the paper’s “Under 21″ series, which discusses the issues of underage and toxic drinking on college campuses in Virginia. This...

Two on-campus events provided bookends for [CR] activities this week, as board member Barrett Seaman participated in a debate at Ohio State University and President John McCardell took part in a similar event at the University of Kentucky...

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Tom Walton, a retired editor and weekly columnist with the Toledo Blade recently discussed the efforts of Stony Brook University’s Red Watch Band in his Monday column titled “Young adult binge drinking nothing to slough off.” Walton lives in Bowling Green and sees the effects of toxic drink...

This version of the Week in Review comes with a pair of event announcements: tonight, [CR] board member Barrett Seaman will be at Ohio State University to debate William DeJong of the Boston University School of Public Health, and on Thursday, the University of Kentucky will host a debate between...

Earlier this week, Joan Pham of the Independent Collegian, the University of Toledo’s student newspaper, covered a new effort by the school’s Student Senate to push for a statewide medical amnesty policy. Ma...

Over the weekend, Mark Norris of the Dallas Morning News profiled Patrick Kobler, the student body president at Southern Methodist University, for a story about Kobler’s new “Mustangs Who Care” alcohol education program. The ...

The issues of binge drinking and the drinking age continue to be hot topics on college campuses as the fall semester moves forward...

Rebecca Smith, a staff writer for the student-run newspaper The Pendulum at Elon College, recently spoke to Get REAL signatory Justin Peterson about his rationale for joining the group of student body presidents calling for open discussions about campus alcohol policies...

Over the weekend, Roanoke Times writer Kevin Kittredge explored one of the major consequences of Legal Age 21: the high drinking age has pushed the consumption of alcohol at several Virginia colleges off campus, and into environments where toxic drinking is much more difficult to control...

National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week 2009 has come to a close, but Choose Responsibility’s new Get REAL initiative for student body presidents is just getting started. ...