Benjamin Wynne, 20, underwent two of the most time-honored rites of passage at Louisiana State University last week . He received a pledge pin from the fraternity that voted him into the brotherhood, and he got rip-roaring drunk to celebrate. Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring “funneling,” in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the drinkers mouth. Next came a communal bender at …showed first 75 words of 420 total…

…showed last 75 words of 420 total…so. Among college students the ones the belonged to a fraternity where almost twice as likely to binge drink. Students that binged saw a drop in grades. Students with an A average consume a little more than three drinks per week, B students have almost five drinks per week, C students average more six drinks per week and students getting and Ds of Fs consume an average on nine drinks per week.(Core Institute par.6)