The National Union of Students will call for a campaign to promote 'responsible drinking' on campuses across the country, in a motion to be put forward at its annual conference this week.
Students at Brunel University are to propose that the 'inaccurate portrayal' of students as behaving drunk and irresponsibly should be redressed.
NUS members from Derby, York, Liverpool, Wolverhampton and London supporting the motion will argue that students feel under peer pressure to drink and are putting themselves at risk of sexual diseases and crime.
The conference started today but the news has already sparked off a row. In a Guardian article, college leaders have attacked firms organising pub crawls on university campuses. But the
companies say it is student unions themselves that foster the worst
excess.
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