After six alcohol-related deaths in two years, this school announced plans to step up its fight against underage drinking. The result: a massive campus backlash. Here’s how students have escalated the booze wars.

A memo from the chancellor pledging to curb underage and binge drinking with heavier enforcement, increased Friday classes and police crackdowns on house parties has outraged University of Wisconsin students.

Forms of student “protest” have included:

• An angry Facebook group attracting over 1,460 members
• Plaintive e-mails to national newspapers, and, of course
• An increase in binges explicitly aimed at defying the chancellor’s strong-arm tactics.

While the chancellor expects the backlash to blow over, it isn’t helping the school change its image as a heavy-drinking college in a heavy-drinking state. It’s a reputation the school is hoping to shed as it transitions into a polytechnic institute with an emphasis on courting high-quality employers.

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Tags: student drinking, University of Wisconsin