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population is morę diverse and used to a \vider rangę of entertainments than drinking pints in a pub, says a ULU spokesperson. Apparently, the recent introduction of non-alcoliolic cocktails was well received.

The decline in sales of alcohol across the bar is visible throughout tlie country, says the president of Durham Student Union. Nick Piekłeś. This is partly financial, but also represents a change in youth culture. Tlie Durham SU bar has stopped selling real ale, says Mr Piekłeś, because tliere was no demand - and the appeal of traditional pubs foryoiuig drinkers seems limited. He adds that students may still be drinking alcohol, but, rather than spending time in pubs, they buy winę from supermarkets, or go to bars.

While there are many headlines about excessive consumption of alcohol among tlie young in generał, these changes involving students raise the prospect of morę American-style, healtliy-living youngsters at least on campus. It’s not good news for the pub industry, which has already seen so many inner city pubs close.

No longer can student trends be dismissed as referring only to a smali, unrepresentative group, as almost half of all young people now go to university, widi morę tlian two tliirds of hose in morę affluent parts of the country going on to higher education.

In the view of Veronica Kong, NUS Vice President for welfare, tlie factors underiying the decline in student drinking are morę practical. Simply, students have neither enougli time nor tnoney for ii Debt reduces tlieir spending power, and with so many now liaving terin-time jobs, tliey don t have tlie long hours to sit in pubs. When so much time is taken eaming money, tlie time pressure on academic woik inereases, she says, and leisure activities tend to suffer. “You re morę likely to find a student working beliind a bar than drinking in front of one these days,”

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11.    Most people’s view of British students

A.    differs considerably from reality.

B.    reflects precisely tlie real State of affairs.

C.    is very close to tlie tnie picture.

12.    Tlie NUS Welfare Section is going to encourage SUs to

A.    make a greater number of their events acceptable to non-drinkers.

B.    limit tlie amount of alcoliol consitmed at all student events.

C.    design separate events for non-drinking and drinking students.

13.    Tlie trend for the closing down of pubs is

A.    quite likely to be reversed by students.

B.    distinctly unlikely to be reversed by students.

C.    certainly going to be reversed by students.

14.    As far as stadstics on student leisure acdvides are concemed, in comparison with sport and exercise, going to tlie pub

A.    te mai ns morę popular.

B.    is now slightly less popular.

C.    enjoys exactly tlie same popularity.

15.    According to Nick Emms. is comparison with the populadon as a whole, students are

A.    morę concemed about tlieir health and finiess

B.    less concemed about tlieir health and huiess.

C.    equally concemed about tlieir health and fimess.