Plans to Eliminate College Binge Drinking Nearly half of today’s college student population is stumbling through the college years due to binge drinking. Binge drinking on college campuses isn’t just an issue of public health, but it’s one of self-interest. Failure to act in the face of foreseeable harm places schools at risk for damaging their academic reputations and liability lawsuits in millions of dollars. Also, students experience a wide variety of alcohol related problems including hangovers, blackouts, and engaging in unplanned sexual activity. According to Lini Kadaba’s article, Colleges Hitting the Bottle Binge Drinking Remains High, but Initiatives at Area Schools Raising Awareness, “College binge drinking is remaining in colleges due to the intractable problems that contribute to 1,700 student deaths, 599,000 injuries, and 97,000 cases of sexual assault, or date rapes.” (24).
The struggle would be with Gus because in the Greek culture, the father/husband is always the head of the house and makes all the decisions. All of Toula’s other family members were happy for her. Although Gus has a hard time in accepting that his daughter will be marrying a non-Greek man, he decides to accept Ian, the fiancé, into the family and is open-minded to the fact that Toula is happy and in love with him. This movie displays that an important cultural belief is that Greeks only marry other Greeks to reproduce more Greek babies. The Greek culture is shown to be
The Greek society within our colleges and universities has for years been known to contribute in student drinking on campus. Fraternity and sorority life is considered a brotherhood and sisterhood. They encourage a family-like relationship between members and promote partying together. Many of these freshmen are not mature enough to know where to draw a line and when this occurs, problems begin. There are far too many examples of how drinking among college fraternities and sororities have led to severe consequences.
In order to put laws into effect there must be a group of people who all agree that new laws should be implemented because of majority vote. You also need people like Angelina Grimke who stand up for what they believe in, and do not bend like a blade of grass in the wind because others may not see truth in their opinions. When you band together and your spirits become one you can prosper and see the seed of justice grow and flourish. The NOW administration will keep watering this new found justice and will fight to make sure it keeps growing and that nothing will stomp it out or quench its
The Brave New Neverland Growing up means learning from getting hurt, taking on responsibility, and losing childhood innocence. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the people of the World State never seem to grow up and lose their childhood innocence. They work as adults but outside of work they are permitted to act like children with no responsibilities and drugs that take care of any unpleasant emotions. They are sheltered with no understanding of how to deal with things and are trained to not grow up mentally. In the World State no one really grows up because the World State wants everyone to be happy and not experience pain which means no one loses their innocence.
Greek organizations are also a big part of the on-campus activities at Western Kentucky University. In 1961 the first national fraternities and sororities were allowed to make local chapters at the local university. At this moment there are 31 active organizations with about 1500 participants each year. As students enter their college years at Western Kentucky University they find that there are many opportunities at this great school. From joining Western Kentucky’s student ran newspaper, Talisman the award winning yearbook, The Extra Point is the student ran television sports
Binge drinking is the sort of drinking that a student does before he or she goes out for the night. It consists of students sitting in a dorm room, or off-campus apartment drinking as much hard liquor as possible. Many students have become very ill from this and some have even been hospitalized. It is a common practice among 18, 19, and 20 year old students who attend college. The reason students binge drink is because in 10988, all fifty states changed their drinking age to 21 because the government basically forced them to.
A Study of the Stereotypical Greek Female Greek life plays a large role in college campuses across the United States, and many college students are involved in the Greek system, however not all students have a positive view of sororities and fraternities. Stereotypes of Greek students range anywhere from all-inclusive contributing members of society to skinny blonde snobby girls and athletic party boys. In 2007 the Delta Zeta chapter at DePauw University purged 23 of the 35 members based mainly on looks and social image (Adler, 2007, pp. 47). This purge embodied the negative stereotype many people see when looking at sororities.
College Binge Drinking College is a time of discovery and learning. It is a time when students develop new ideas and form new habits. One of these habits is drinking binge drinking. College students in fact drink more than their peers who are not in college (Wechsler 987). Problems arising from college drinking have risen proportionally by 7% since 1998 (Hingson 15).
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