Shifting the College Drinking Culture

College Drinking: Not a "harmless rite of passage"

Environmental Management: Vital to creating change

PartySafe@Cal: Reducing Harm associated with drinking and parties around campus

In the News

Daily Cal: Sex on Tuesday: Girl, What You Drinkin' ? (10/27/09)

Last week Leslie, my amazingly awesome and patient assistant editor, was going over my column when she came across the sentence: "One day you might end up hooking up while drunk." The line was in reference to how alcohol might help you and a good friend of yours have a splendid evening.

UC Berkeley Public Affairs: Karen Hughes: Putting the brakes on college drinking (10/20/09)

Karen Hughes' job — helping to curb students' use of booze — began with an internship at the San Francisco-based Trauma Foundation, where she studied environmental approaches to reducing alcohol-related problems, while earning her masters' degree in public health at Berkeley. Hughes went on to work on an alcohol-tax campaign and as a facilitator for the Contra Costa County Health Department, then left the workforce to raise her two children. Four years ago, she landed her current job, and with it the chance to cultivate "an improved alcohol environment" in her own backyard, as she puts it.

Daily Cal: Check the Glow: Alcohol Awareness Week (4/17/09)

No one else really cared that much about my own drinking, even when facing me at a party. I was only limiting myself by viewing my sobriety as a handicap...

Daily Cal: Mocktails for You (10/24/08)

The reason why young people abuse the right to drink in this country isn't just because it's taboo due to all of the supposedly unnecessary legal restrictions. It's because of the pervasive culture that the media-not the law-has created…

CalTV: College Drinking Culture (Video) (4/18/08)