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Game Day: Michigan struggles with college drinking

Universities are spending millions to curb dangerous drinking. Yet blackout partying persists in a puke-and-rally culture. Bridge investigates what works, and what doesn’t, in the ongoing battle to keep college students safe. Today's report:

A Game Day diary, from four Michigan campuses.

In campus hospitals, beds full of drinking casualties

Stone-cold sober on game day? It really happens

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