The documentary, titled "HAZE," was shown to University of New Hampshire fraternity and sorority members Sept. 23. Student staff writer Mallory Baker reported on the screening in the Sept. 24 edition of the school newspaper:
Gordie Bailey, was a pledge at Chi Psi fraternity at the University of Colorado in Boulder. On Sept. 16, 2004, he was sent into a local forest with his pledge class with orders to finish four handles of whiskey and six bottles of wine in the span of a half hour.
On Sept. 17, he was found dead in the library of the frat house. ...
In one respect, the message of HAZE was quite clear: College campuses nationwide have become both a haven and training ground for binge drinking, which the documentary defines as consuming five drinks in one sitting for men or four drinks in one sitting for women at least once in a period of two weeks.
In fact, according to a variety of alcohol and substance abuse experts interviewed in HAZE, 44 percent of college students in the United States are binge drinkers.
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