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If ESN doesn\u2019t help organise it, the intensive drinking will just go on at the dorms and kollegiums, they say.<\/p>\n<p>But when the network on its website promotes parties with entrance-fees followed by drinks-for-free happy hours, the fine line between accepting the social activity of drinking alcohol, and the active promotion of binge drinking has been crossed.<\/p>\n<p>ESN is supported financially by the University of Copenhagen for the good things ESN does, like organising cultural events such as the regular trip to the Viking ships in Roskilde. The University of Copenhagen should continue to do so. <\/p>\n<p>It is painful for us at the University Post to criticise ESN. Several of our foreign student reporters regularly attend ESN events. 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