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st tribune december 8 1993 pi 3 students hear hard truths about alcohol bruce stapley correspondent serge leclerc has a list of credentials that would make him a hot item at any gathering of social activists concerned with issues like violence against women teenage suicide and alcohol abuse a social worker and coun sellor from the waterloo area he has been a guest lecturer at various univer sities and has appeared on numerous tv and radio programs leclerc also practices what he preaches he is a founder director and board member of a host of commu nity action groups but what had the student body of stouffville district secondary school entranced this past monday morning was leclercs inyourface candour his direct hits aimed at the values they espouse and his own expe riences as a drug wasted timeserving street kid for what leclerc did dur ing his hour long admoni tion was to give the kids a wake up call and he was up front about it he said from the outset he really didnt care if the stu 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4722036 he hit the boys with the results of a recent survey which found they drink sim ply because they are expect ed to theyll be called a wimp or a geek if they dont the real wimps and geeks he insist ed are the ones that let oth ers call the shots for them as for the girls the survey said they drink because their boyfriends do and because they fell it lets their real self come out if thats your real self leclerc roared then you better keep it inside do you girls really think youll have a wild time up there on the roof top- because youre drinking remember the little silver ring in the nose its work- ing leclerc mocked those who present the false lifestyle ads to young people declar ing they wouldnt dare offer the truth why dont they show a commercial where a teenaged boy wraps a gar den hose around his neck and hangs himself in the garage because of alcohol or follow a girl around for awhile after shes been date raped at a drunken party heaven forbid they would ever tell you the 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