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Report: Air Force Academy Alcohol Abuse Up
| Wonder how it compares to the Univ. of Florida, Notre Dame, Colorado, and Villanova? |
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) - Alcohol offenses at the Air Force Academy jumped 57 percent last semester, largely because of an incident in which 15 underage cadets were drinking at a retreat, a newspaper reported Tuesday. | So in other words, it didn't change much. |
The Gazette of Colorado Springs, citing academy officials, said there were 74 alcohol offenses between June and December, compared with 47 in the same period in 2003. ``While the number of incidents is down, there is a trend in having more people involved in each incident,'' said academy spokesman Johnny Whitaker. Alcohol is a crucial issue at the school near Colorado Springs: Forty percent of sexual assaults in which two cadets were involved in the past 10 years also involved drinking, according to a 2003 Air Force investigation. | Most college sexual assaults do involve drinking. |
The school has overhauled its alcohol policy as part of reforms put in place after scores of female cadets complained their sexual assault cases were mishandled. Whitaker blamed last semester's increase on an October incident in which 21 cadets were involved in a party at an academy-approved, but unsupervised retreat. The incident involved 15 underage cadets.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-02-09 |
