Alcohol Abuse in American Youth
It has been stated in each research source that hazing and particularly binge drinking is the most serious problem affecting social life, academic life, and health on college campuses today. The journal article pertaining to this issue, How Harvard's College Alcohol Study Can Help Your Campus Design a Campaign Against Student Alcohol Abuse (CAS: Campus Alcohol Study for short), focuses more heavily on binge drinking and prevention than it does on the Greek system itself. The authors, Wechsler, Nelson, and Weitzman, contend that binge drinking is a nationally recognized problem but has not been studied efficiently enough to warrant effective prevention plans. The purpose of this article is to share with the public the results of a survey representing 50,000 students in 140 colleges, in 39 states. This is the first nationally representative survey of its kind and the analysis of its outcome by the authors of this article has resulted in seemingly sound prevention ideas. To begin interpreting the binge drinking phenomenon, a solid understanding of the term must be presented. Binge drinking is defined by all the articles as consuming five or more drinks in rapid succession (four or more for women) at least once in a two week
My opinion has not really changed on this topic, because prior to this paper, I had not this first idea what hazing and other aspects of college social life was about. In terms of the issues, I am strongly against binge drinking. It is by far the most stupid risk a person can take. I do not feel, however that it is fair to put an end to drinking on a college campus. I strongly believe that the consumption of alcohol is, when done properly a totally acceptable social activity. Study Can Help Your Campus Design a Campaign Against Student Alcohol There is a no drinking policy in effect in L.S.U. but neither this fact, nor the fact that he was underage stopped Wynne from drinking himself to death. As long as college towns continue their leniency with underage drinking, college students will be plagued with the tragedies binge drinking causes. JoAnn M. Arnholt is taking prevention to the next level as described in "At Rutgers Fraternities: an End to the Age of Big Wild Parties?" This new administrator at Rutgers college in New Jersey is planning on prohibiting alcohol everywhere on campus and even in off campus, private Fraternity houses. Arnholt contends that alcohol in Rutgers fraternities is responsible for crashing GPA levels and is not helping the criminal fines that keep adding up against the frats. She and other administrators believe that alcohol in frat houses acts as "an impediment to a healthy learning environment and a breeding ground for hazing."
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Approximate Word count = 1700
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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