How about not admitting 18-22 year olds who are prone to binge drinking.
Instead, have a 0-4 year program called "live off of your parents and party like you're 18-22 years old", held primarily in Daytona Beach, FL and other spring break locations. You graduate from the program and attend college when you're no longer obsessed with binge drinking and have proven a serious intent to apply yourself to academics and drink responsibly. If you remain in the program >4 years you have to return home to live with your parents and spend the rest of your life working in menial service-type jobs (or just live off your parents, whichever they tolerate).
This way, higher education would be a privilege for those that truly appreciate it, and not just "what you do after graduating from high school."
Of course, this would only solve the problem of binge drinking among
college students. You'd still have the health problem of binge drinking among adolescents and young adults, but that's a societal problem that will take major changes in parental attitudes, images seen in the media, access to alcoholic beverages, and peer pressure.
[ 03-27-2004, 10:54 PM: Message edited by: Neomi ]