Dartmouth College bans hard liquor: Can booze limits improve student safety?

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2. When I was in college, there was a local law preventing the establishment

of a "bar" (i.e. a business primarily selling liquor) within a certain radius of campus. The net effect: students drove to the bars, liquored up, and drove back home. I wouldn't say that made anyone safer.

Later, when I was in graduate school in Canada, the drinking age was 19 and there were 7 or 8 bars on campus. Binge-drinking was not a common occurrence, and the only alcohol-related injury during my four years there was when a student slipped on the icy steps of her dorm on her way back from the bar inside the student union (and there is an argument to be made that that injury was weather-related, and not drinking-related).

Prohibition doesn't seem to solve these problems.