"So far we have been fortunate to avoid any problems," he adds.

Despite final club member assurances, Lewis has spoken out harshly against the all-male institutions, calling them accidents waiting to happen.

Henry Wechsler, director of the Harvard School of Public Health's College Alcohol Study, says it is the responsibility of the University to curb the behaviors associated with binge drinking.

"High frequency of drinking affects everyone, including students that don't drink," he says. "Colleges need to respond to [these secondary affects]. They need to provide a minimum quality of campus life."

Wechsler likens the effects of binge drinking to the dangers associated with secondhand smoke--non-drinking students suffer when their peers are drinking around them.

And Wechsler says once the second-hand effects of binge drinking are fully understood by the University community, binge drinking will no longer be tolerated.

"People used to smoke all the time, everywhere. They'd blow smoke in your face, have no regard for non-smokers or others around them," he says. "[But now], once the results of secondhand smoke have been publicized, smokers have to go outside of buildings, out in the cold."