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Matt White
09-14-2005, 03:44 PM
By SALLY EVANS

A WHOPPING six out of 10 college students have gone on a bingedrinking spree during the past two weeks, but get this: During the same period eight out of 10 professors have done the same.

And that means that at any given moment, up to one-third of the teachers and students staggering around America's institutions of higher learning are stewed to the gills.

"It's a national scandal," fumes Boston-based anti-booze activist Dorothy Kenney, whose 4-year-old daughter Tina was cut down in her sandbox by a brandy-addled sociology professor driving a stolen Volvo in January, 1999.

"You expect a college student to drink to excess on occasion, they're kids and they don't know any better. Professors are supposed to be more responsible. But these new statistics prove that they aren't."

The National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Md., arrived at the binge-drinking figures after surveying 6,000 students and professors in all 50 states. The study concluded that the cost of the drinking "is incalculably high."

"The cost in injuries and property damage stemming from accidents is in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually," says the study.

"Harder to quantify are the losses associated with an entire generation of young people being taught by slurring, rambling drunks.

"This explains why only four in 10 students know that the first president of the United States was George Washington, but nine out of 10 can tell you how many 16-ounce cups of beer you can squeeze out of a keg."