Do campus reports of alcohol consumption understate abuse?
National study belies campus stats I DON’T THINK of Fresno State students as paragons of virtue. I rarely think of any college-aged individual as a paragon, especially when it comes to alcohol. Eddie Jimenez, a columnist for The Fresno Bee, wrote on Monday that after a six-student survey at Fresno State he was amazed that students acknowledge the existence of excessive drinking but “seemed to know more about drinking responsibly.” Two of the students Jimenez spoke to are involved in BACCHUS (Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students) — a program on campus whose club purpose is “to educate peers in promoting healthy lifestyles and help peers in making responsible choices.” A phone call to the BACCHUS president, Samantha Howell, yielded the information that BACCHUS has a club membership of eight or nine people. Amazingly, Jimenez ran into two of them on a campus of some 22,000 students. Mathematically, running into those two should happen about .009 perc
