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Deals with the effectiveness of the parental notification policies of colleges in the United States in reducing binge drinking among college students. Role of parents in regulating student behavior; Results of surveys on the effectiveness of the regulation; Loophole in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

Discusses the controversy over whether university campus traditions that involve alcohol and nudity should be banned in the United States. Arguments from officials at Princeton University, Ithaca, and University of Michigan pointing to activities that resulted in alcohol-related illnesses and injuries; Problems of assault and exploitation of nude photographs; View from class president at Princeton University, Ben Shopsin, to preserve student tradition.

Focuses on the debate over graphic anti-drinking advertisements. Reflection of differing views on how to change student behavior; Campaign by the City of Boston, called 'Party Smart'; Criticism of the scare-tactics approach; Support for a strategy known as social norms approach by college administrators; Experiment at the Northern Illinois University; Financial problems; Outlook.

Focuses on an amendment to the Higher Education Act which allows colleges to inform parents anytime a student under 21-years-old violates drug or alcohol laws. The University of Delaware, Radford University and a few other institutions as trying out the plan as an effort to curb alcohol abuse among students; Educators and parents who question the tactic; Comments.

Discusses efforts by colleges to combat student alcohol abuse. Failure of approaches such as banning alcohol in residence halls and fraternities and orchestrating campus advertising campaigns about the dangers of excessive drinking; Liberal stance of some colleges they hope will teach students to drink responsibly; Attempts at other institutions of sterner measures involving expulsion for repeat offenders; Involvement of more college presidents in the problem once handled by low-level administrators.

Discusses the results of a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggesting that rampant drinking collegiate drinking may be exaggerated. Use of breathalyzer tests for the study; Criticism of the method by Henry Wechsler, director of college alcohol at the Harvard University School of Public Health.

Discusses a survey conducted by the Harvard University School of Public Health. Number of undergraduate students who own handguns; Relation between student drinking and gun possession; Publication of the report in the July issue of the 'Journal of American College Health'; Profile of the students with handguns; Alcohol use among students; Warning for colleges.

Reports on the alcohol consumption of college students. Survey released by the Harvard University School of Public Health and published in the `Journal of American College Health'; Increase in the number of students that abstain from alcohol; Increase in the number of students that drink heavily; Problems of students that do drink alcohol.

Asserts that, in light of student riots on campuses across the nation, the colleges involved share the responsibility for students' actions because those schools have traditionally looked the other way with regard to students' drinking on campus. The alcohol-related deaths that have prompted colleges to crack down on student drinking; Reaction of students to colleges that limit or prohibit students' drinking on campus.