Twenty-eight ambulances had to be called — so many that neighboring towns had to send their emergency vehicles, too — as the students participated in what’s known as an annual St.…
Dozens of students at the University of Massachusetts were hospitalized over the weekend after participating in a dangerous binge-drinking trend involving “blackout rage gallons” dubbed “borgs.”
Hordes of students gathered in the snow during the festivities with borgs — or plastic gallon jugs filled with a mixture of alcohol, electrolytes, flavoring and water. Some borg recipes call for a fifth of alcohol, which equals about 16 drinks, said Nicole Barr, an official with the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Abrons Student Health Center,Students gave their “borgs” nicknames such as Soulja Borg.Several videos shared on TikTok showing the students drinking borgs have gone viral, including one where a student asks their peers what they nicknamed their borg.
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