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Friday, May 16, 2008

New Penn State students to take alcohol-awareness course
Friday, May 16, 2008
The Associated Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- First-year Penn State students will have to take an online alcohol awareness course as part of a new program designed to combat high-risk drinking.

The students would begin taking the preventative course called "AlcoholEdu for College" before arriving on campus. The program created by Boston-based Outside the Classroom is already used at more than 500 colleges around the country.

But Penn State officials say implementation at Penn State will be the largest of its kind, administered to the expected 17,000 first-year students this fall across the university system.
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