Alcohol abuse on campuses is well documented and was long tolerated. “People assumed you went to college, drank up, had a good time, and graduated,” Gerardo M. Gonzalez, a researcher at the University of Florida, told The Chronicle. But times were changing. “I suspect what happened was that as we started to look at drug use in the late ‘60s, what came up in study after study was that the major drug in use was alcohol,” said Mr. Gonzalez, who retired last year as dean of the School of Education at Indiana University at Bloomington. The Chronicle has continued to cover the issue over the years, most notably in “A River of Booze,” in November 2014.
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