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Vital Issues

High risk drinking and its secondhand effects have widespread consequences on our campus and community, even those who choose not to drink.

The Harvard College Alcohol Study consistently shows that a high level of the Lehigh student population is negatively affected by the drinking of other students.

These secondhand effects include:

• Experienced an unwanted sexual advance
• "Babysitting" drunk friends
• Being insulted or humiliated
• Being pushed, hit or assaulted
• Having studying/sleeping interrupted

The same survey also documented problems among the students who chose to drink excessively. They include:

• Missing classes
• Doing something they regret
• Forgetting where they were and what they did
• Having unplanned and unprotected sex
• Getting behind in school work

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