This is what the UH website says:

“There is GOOD NEWS among college students on the Manoa campus. Click here to read all about it.”

So…I click it and this is what it says.

“Approximately 71% of our freshmen living in residence halls are not considered problem or high-risk drinkers.”

In other words, 29%, or more than one out of four of our freshmen living in residence halls ARE problem/high-risk drinkers.

Okay…so let’s see what else this page says.

“42% of undergraduate students did not use alcohol in the 30 days prior to taking the survey.”

So…58%, more than half, of undergraduates did drink within the month prior to the survey.

75% reported that they did not binge drink, or consume 5 or more drinks in one sitting in the 2 weeks prior to reporting.

So, one fourth of our undergraduates binge drink. Nice.

University of Hawaii at Manoa freshmen residents believe only 1 out of 100 UH Manoa students did not drink in the last 30 days when, in reality, 1 out of 5 chose not to drink.

Or, to put it in a different viewpoint, 4 out of 5 UH Manoa students have consumed alcohol in the past thirty days.

So, the drinking problems at UH-Manoa isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. But there still is a problem.

(But then again I’m not against drinking anyway. If people want to drink, that’s fine with me, as long as they don’t hurt other people. And last time I checked, drinking wasn’t a big problem at the dorms so oh well. It appears that the large number of students who do drink do so responsibly.)