Getting Real about Alcohol Awareness

Tying in with the 2009 National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week (October 18-24), Choose Responsibility, a non-profit organization, has launched an initiative for student body presidents to get their peers talking openly and honestly about alcohol-related issues.
Titled "Get REAL," the campaign is set to encourage these student leaders to sign on to this task of fostering education, leadership, and responsibility on subjects such as binge drinking, the legal drinking age, and campus alcohol policies. In the coming months, Get REAL signatories are expected to collaborate on stimulating discussions about alcohol that emphasize peer-to-peer accountability and explore possible alternatives to make their campuses safer, according to a media release.
"The time has come to treat college students as the young adults the law says they are," states John McCardell, Choose Responsibility's president and president emeritus of Middlebury College (Vt.), in the release.
McCardell adds the campaign will provide students with "an opportunity to influence the debate and show leadership on alcohol issues."
Learn more about the Get REAL campaign here.