UNH Dean of Students Speaks About Alcohol

On New Hampshire Public Radio this morning, UNH Dean of Students Anne Lawing talked about the severity of underage drinking.
Lawing said that she was concerned about the frightening level of problems related to alcohol. These problems range from missing classes to thousands of deaths nationwide.
While she admits that there is no way to put an end to drinking at colleges, she does advise caution and good judgment to students that partake in these parties. “Students have been drinking as long as there have been students,”she said jokingly.
Sheila Lambert, coordinator of an alcohol awareness program at Southern New Hampshire University, comments that the problem is not as bad as some people may think.
Lambert said, “It is a misperception that students are always drinking too much. In our survey from spring 2009, we found that the majority of students partake in drinking in low risk ways, usually having less than four drinks a week.”
If students are beginning to cut down on the amount of alcohol consumed, Lawing still sees this as a prominent problem. “We are tired of all these problems,” Lawing said, “It wastes time of both the local and on campus police.”