Up and down Prospect [Avenue] there is a sense that there are issues with drinking. We're concerned about alcohol and the bad decision-making that can result.

If you look at bad decisions that are made as a result of consuming too much alcohol, from sexual assaults to property damage, we face that every weekend.

I think it's math. Thirty-six college students die every year of alcohol poisoning. There are 5,000 colleges. It hasn't gotten to us yet. I certainly don't think we're immune. And we may even be more susceptible than other schools.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.