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University's draft Race Equality Policy is "inadequate" >>page 4
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FEATURES GETTING SERVED: could bars feel the hangover of serving drunks?
Dentistry undergraduates to help crack down on binge drinking students and the problem bars that serve them Emma Barlow News Editor Binge drinking students who end up in hospital may find themselves facing fellow Cardiff undergraduates who will ask them where they had their last drink. The gathered information, which is part of a research project for fifth year dentistry undergraduates, will be passed on to police and the council to help crack down on problem areas of alcohol misuse in the city. The study began last week at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW),
in the country’s largest accident and emergency centre. Study coordinator John Shepherd, Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Cardiff, said: “The students are not working to get bars prosecuted by the police; instead, the information will be used to highlight problem areas of alcohol misuse and disruption.” “Hopefully the study will remind bar staff to be shrewd when determining if a customer is intoxicated or not,” he added. Although the police cannot use the results of the study as hard evidence, establishments could find themselves gaining a reputation for supplying al-
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cohol to intoxicated customers, which is against the law and can result in individual members of bar staff being heavily fined. The study is not solely aimed at students but all patients admitted to hospital for intoxication and Professor Shepherd predicted the research might show that students make up a minority of such patients. He said: “When it comes to alcohol, students are unfairly represented by outsiders, those within the student body and even among students themselves.” Students' reactions to the plans have so far been mixed. One third
year Psychology student, who prefers to remain anonymous, felt the study wasn’t that relevant to students. She was taken to hospital after a night out at the Students’ Union. She said: “If they had asked me where my last drink was I would have said the SU but that wouldn’t have been very fair as I had done all of my drinking at home.” She continued: “It was completely my own fault, I hardly had anything inside the Union,” >> continued on page four
Silent night: Christmas on the streets of Cardiff >>page 17
OPINION
Emma Davies doesn't want to be told where to live >>page 9