In Froma Harrop “Stop babysitting College Students,” she argues, that college students are to blame for their drinking habits. She also argues that “prohibiting local businesses from selling alcohol to college students,” or banning companies selling alcohol from sponsoring college events and activities, or preventing champagnes at fundraising events, or family occasions will not stop the college students from drinking.…
College isn’t what it should be. Students nowadays are focused on having fun. They think college is a place of freedom where they can just do as they please and not care about their schooling, “Life is at parties, at clubs, in music, with friends, in sports” (Edmundson). Students have gained independence and feel like they must do crazy things. Or…
After reading the essay “Stop Babysitting College Students” by Froma Harrop, an editorial writer and columnist for the Providence Journal, the idea of having major universities taking a biased responsibility of its students drinking habits would by no means succeed. As an eighteen-year-old college freshman at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) who has just recently been exposed to alcohol, I can tell you that there are limited resolutions that any college or university system can do to prevent college students from not drinking alcohol. Most of the average college students’ weekend life and experience includes going to parties and having their fair share of drinks, but if a university put a guard on student consumption to prevent binge drinking and alcohol abuse, it would actually bring an obstruction to many college students.…
Drinking on college campuses has become a huge problem. For example, in the 10th century only old people used to drink, but now students drink more than their parents. Students see their parents drinking, so they may think that drinking has no effect on health that anyone can drink so why can’t the students drink? Therefore, college students have been drinking alcohol since the 14th century. Barrett Seaman’s article “How Bingeing Became the New College Sport,” appearing in TIME magazine on August 29, 2005, explains how binge drinking is affecting college students. It also suggests that lowering the drinking age might help solve the problem of binge drinking. This article has much information on how and where students get drunk.…
According to a recent survey conducted by Student Monitor, a college market research company, college student’s state that the three biggest problems on college campuses are the cost, stress and drinking. Now more than ever, college binge drinking is becoming a relevant issue and it is often linked to rape and sexual assault. A recent study conducted by, The Maryland Collaborative to Reduce College Drinking and Related Problems, found “that alcohol use of any kind on campuses across the country each year results in 1,800 deaths; 600,000 injuries; 700,000 assaults by someone under the influence; and nearly 1 million rapes and sexual assaults”. There have been initiatives to lower college tuition and support systems to cope with the stress of school, but no specific and universal…
As college students, alcohol is just a common and abused drug throughout campus. Drinking plays a big role in college party scenes as well as tailgating. Most freshmen, sophomores and juniors who fall under the age of 21 will still drink because alcohol is present. In addition, this age group would feel pressured to drink in order to be “cool,” to have a good time or to impress someone. Because of reasons such as this, State College and Penn State invest so much money and…
When I walked into my first college party, I saw that there were bottles all over the place. I noticed Cîroc, Patron, 1800, and many other alcoholic beverages. I saw one kid in the corner throwing up, another kid stumbling, and a large group of students playing beer pong. College students often refer to this as the “Turn Up,” defined as acting crazy due to the consumption of large amounts of alcohol. They believe that if there is no alcohol at a college party, then it is not considered enjoyable. These students like to live life on the edge and not worry about the next morning. It becomes a cycle and within the next night, they are partaking in these activities all over again. Taking shots to the head and filling their bodies with alcohol because most of them do not care about the danger they are putting themselves into; this is the life of a college student.…
The consequences of college binge drinking are more destructive and life- changing than students realize. In the article “Curbing College Drinking Starts with a Change in Attitude,” by Sara Fritz, published in Pearson's The Effective Reader in 2011, the author explains the problems resulting from excessive drinking on college campuses. Due to the seriousness of drinking, colleges find, it will take the combined effort of parents, students, and college staff to accomplish the best end result.…
Alcohol – one of the most misused drugs today – is one of the most popular and readily available of all types found on contemporary college and university campuses. Waking in a stupor after the previous night 's party, missing classes, falling behind and ultimately losing whatever funding may have accompanied one 's higher education is but one representation of how drugs can detrimentally impact one 's college experience. Many students think college is just one big party now that they are on their own at school; however, the soiree does not last long once parents find out the extent to which their adult children have detrimentally impacted their scholastic rating by skipping class, failing to complete assignments and generally neglecting their responsibilities.…
(Hingson et al., 2009) Furthermore, 400,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 had unprotected sex, and more than 100,000 students report having been too intoxicated to know if they consented to having sex. These shocking statistics lead campuses to ban the use of alcohol on their campuses. Except, eliminating drinking on college campuses is unrealistic because college students, like high school students, are subjected to strong social pressures to drink. Moderation is a more realistic goal for college students to avoid the problems of alcohol abuse (Krohn, 2000). America tried, during its history, to ban alcohol. This brilliant idea was known as prohibition. Prohibition did not prevent drinking, and dry campuses won’t prevent drinking. Therefore, drinking is a reality for college student, and it’s going to happen. Teaching students to make better choices about alcohol can prevent excessive drinking and the social problems that come along with it, such as academic problems, sexual assault, suicide attempts and alcohol abuse. The whole point of graduating college is to earn an education, not develop an alcohol addiction. Colleges can’t ignore or avoid the problems of drinking by having a dry campus policy. Drinking happens, and kids need to be educated on how to be able to deal with…
One way to stop binge drinking is to provide alcohol free activities on campus that discourage students from drinking. Hosting regular movie nights, dances and volunteer opportunities is a great Spread awareness of the problem by educating students as early as possible. Provide informational seminars for both prospective and incoming freshman. Once admitted into the college, dorm residents should be required to attend quarterly sessions…
The environment and the transition of high school students to independent college students can be an overwhelming power for incoming freshmen in college. “Upon college entry, students gain independence from their family and relative freedom from obligations and commitments to others.” Many of the incoming students tend to feel more independent and free to do things by themselves without help or consent. These students then try their best to fit in with the crowd, it’s human nature to want to feel accepted in any way. Unfortunately many of the students get the wrong kind of attention. This is where drinking becomes an issue. “These drinking patterns are affected by environment and temporal characteristics specific to the college environment.” The environment can be an important part in students lives, it can start their drinking…
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) discusses that students enrolled in college are more likely to consume alcohol than their peers than do not attend college. They report that 1700 college students die yearly due to alcohol. The increasing number of college students drinking has resulted in higher incidences of unprotected intercourse and most rapes on college campuses are alcohol related. The community also impacts the number of students drinking due to the low cost of alcohol in college towns. Colleges that ban alcohol and colleges with more alcohol control policies in place have lower rates of binge drinking on campus. The CSPI offers many statistics on the effect of college students consuming alcohol and how it impacts their lives and the lives of others. This online resource provides a plethora of information and credible statistics that are helpful for any parent sending a student to college.…
Underage drinking in college is a common occurrence and has been for a long time, most people think it is just what college kids do and that it is something that it okay. The truth is that for many students from the age of 17 to 20 the drinking isn’t just distracting kids from their work it could be hurting them in many other ways. Most of the problem isn’t just the fact that the kids are all drinking but it is how and where they drink, most underage kids are not going out to bars or to mature parties where getting extremely drunk usually isn’t what happens. But instead kids are going to house parties and playing games that involve drinking…
I am only now beginning to enter my sophomore year at college but there has always one part of it that has been especially exciting, the parties. Yes, those glorious nights where you can escape from the nagging of your parents, procrastinate on some of that homework, or maybe even meet someone special. Any average college student could tell you that the craziest parties always happen on Thirsty Thursdays. Once that day of the week comes around students start to forget the stresses of their week and go out to try and have some fun, sometimes too much fun. Many great memories are made at parties, some are good others seem to be the worst times of your life. But what drives a college student to party so hard? Is it s lack of confidence, a desire to fit in, just to let loose, or one of the other many possibilities? In this essay I reflect upon a few of the many parties I attended this past semester and studied the party goers so i could perhaps understand the drive to get so out of hand. During the course of composing my field notes, which I have blended into my essay, I gathered experiences as both an insider and an outsider to the environment to search for the answer to some of my questions.…