Students do occasionally die after binges here in Britain, but not with this sort of frequency. Cases of young people dying after bingeing on alcohol are reported in the press every now and then. I do not know whether there are other similar deaths which pass unreported. I would doubt it, however, as it is the sort of story that appeals to our tabloid newspapers. There is one obvious explanation why these cases go unreported in the States but are given publicity in Britain, and why (it seems) we have many fewer such deaths over here - the fact that drinking under the age of 21 is permitted in Britain but not in the States, so students are not forced into drinking in secret, in binges.