Booze binge fad alarming colleges

A two-day conference with college officials from across Pennsylvania, was convenend to discuss "Power hour", a new drinking binge fad on the rise on college campuses across the nation where friends of the person turning 21 videotape or take cameraphone pictures of the drinking bout and put it on the Internet. Sometimes with deadly results, reports the Post gazette.

"The event, which ended yesterday, was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association and the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities."

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