Universities work to battle culture of drinking

THE TENNESSEAN: …Like clockwork at the start of every semester, [Sgt. John ] Pepper said, he and bar bouncers see an influx of fake identification.

Years ago, Pepper realized a couple of hours in a drunk tank was not curbing the problem.

Now, when he and his patrol officers arrest students from Vanderbilt, Belmont, Lipscomb, Tennessee State and Fisk universities, he makes a call to the school. The schools, he said, have more resources to provide treatment, if need be, to the students… (more)

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