By Livi Leonard

EXETER College’s Students’ Union is running an awareness day to warn teenagers of the dangers of binge-drinking.

During the run-up to Christmas the team are stressing the message: ‘Eat, drink, be merry’, rather than ‘Eat, drink, get wasted.’

The drink awareness day will be held on Monday 15th at the college’s main Hele Road site with activities to make students more aware of the effects of drinking.

The event will include giving out beer goggles to give students the vision of a drunk, an alcohol calculator to calculate the yearly, monthly and weekly price you can spend on alcohol, a guess the units test and a drink spiking exercise.

The union has also publicised the event with the slogan, “Everyone likes a drink…No-one likes a drunk.”

Natalie Tremlett, president of Exeter College Students’ union, said: “We just want to make people think a bit more about their drinking.
“We don’t want to stop them from enjoying themselves over the Christmas period but it’s about getting a balance of having fun and not putting themselves in danger and making themselves ill.”