College Drinking Worries Editor Mom

Item: UIdaho senior dies from alcohol overdose /Idaho Statesman

Vickie Holbrook /From The Editor: My son and I had pretty open discussions about what happened in college. In fact, he had a very scary situation occur when one of his classmates drank too much during the fall semester as freshman. My son and friends found him and got him to the hospital. Fortunately, the young man lived and a lot of young college students learned a very hard lesson early on: Friends must watch out for each other. More here .

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Question: On Monday, Huckleberries Online posted a story in which Playboy declared WSU to be the No. 16 party school in the nation. On the same day, news arrived that a UI senior had died from drinking. Have you talked to your college son or daughter re: the dangers of too much drinking?