【正确答案】正确答案： Irish Students' Drinking Causing High Dropout Rate Excessive drinking in Irish universities is a major contributor / to an alarming dropout rate at some campuses, education officials said. / Higher Education Authority chairman told a conference that / data indicated students were spending a significant proportion / of their time and money on alcohol, newspapers reported. / World Health Organization figures showed / that Irish per capita consumption of beer, the preferred drink of young men, / was 142.5 liters per year, or almost twice the European Union average. / Some campuses are losing almost a third of their students, education officials said. / But the dropout rate in Ireland is in line with international trends. /