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Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking

            In "Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge drinking," the Harvard School of Public Health informs us that, "binge drinking is a major problem on many college campuses (20)." Some of the factors that promote binge drinking at college are students who binge thinks they represent the norm, fraternities, sororities, and alumnus, drinking in the athletic programs and students who have started drinking before they got to college. "The reason change eludes colleges are that they only use one approach to solve the problem (20)." .
             In the article the author attacks the problem by contributing some solutions. His first objective is regular students who are repeat offenders. "Students who become drunk and disorderly should be made to take responsibility for the mess they have created (21).".
             He thinks the students should be punished by penalizing them with unrealistic duties such as "cleaning up vomit (21)" and forcing policies such as "three strikes and you"re out (21)." Wechsler believes that "fraternities and sororities are the center of binge drinking on college campuses (21)." His approach to solving this problem is to require all first-year students to live in dormitories instead of fraternity house where "four out of five residents binge (21)." He feels colleges shouldn't ignore the behavior of fraternities because of the fear of alumnus. Alumni are a part of the problem too. They don't set a good example for the students. Wechsler wants the alumni to be better role models by not drinking at homecoming and sporting events. He also thinks that the athletes play a big role in binge drinking. "Athletes are one and a half times likely to binge (22)." Wechsler doesn't stop at the college level. He also addresses the high school level as well. "High school students are more likely to believe the message of a college student than those of teachers and other adults (23)." His solution to this problem is to have college students go and talk with the high school students and influence them that drinking is not good.


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