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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Officials hope to lessen college drinking problems

The Associated Press - Tuesday, July 08, 2008

BISMARCK, N.D.

North Dakota campus officials are seeing encouraging signs in the battle to control drinking among college students, though they are not ready to declare victory.

"We are hopeful that we are moving in the right direction," said Karin Walton, director of the North Dakota Higher Education Consortium for Substance Abuse prevention.

Walton said the number of students at 11 state university campuses who said they abstained from drinking alcohol has gone from 31 percent of those surveyed in 1994 to 36 percent in 2006, the most recent year available.

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