Binge drinking a happy hobby for Illinois students.

Eve Tucker has downed 11 beers. Your small left toe, bleeding from an average of a broken beer bottle. It is 1 pm and the bar closed. But Tucker is not ready at home.

University and Kristen Hoglund, along the strip of campus bars, glued to their mobile phones, aims at Night Party by the end of the school year.

“We have to find somewhere,” said Tucker, 21, wrapped in a bar towel around her toe. “I am not made to drink.”

Hundreds of other students to relax outside on Saturday morning in early May, shortly after the final week at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Students are motivated, caring, their weapons. Some love everyone and try to make some combat, with the construction of a road. Some can barely walk. Pâtés houses, students, a band of naked quad, as a spectator, the rate streakers on a scale of 1 to 10.

For years, studies indicate that students drink too much alcohol. And for years, colleges have tried to control drinking _ problem of educating students, try-to-peer pressure on students and margins on abstinence Burschenschaften turbulent.

On I. And efforts over the past ten years have made some improvements. Crime has significantly on campus. A new office to coordinate aid for students with alcohol and drug problems. Students in the recent study by I. And indicated that they consume on average 5.2 drinks per week, compared to 6.8 drinks per week, 10 years ago.

Still, new surveys, a federal task force named in the certificate and a new U.S. Senate Committee on the consultation show that the federal government has failed to stem the efforts College binge drinking, five glasses for a man and four for a woman at a meeting in the past two weeks.

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And although nobody knows why, alcohol is growing more and more often in Illinois. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, published in May showed that the proportion of adults binge drinking _ defined as someone who consumes five or more drinks once a month _ in Illinois jumped by 7.3 percent in 1991 to 13.9 per cent in 1999, the highest increase in the nation.

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