Several Iowa college campuses have struggled with alcohol-related incidents during this academic year, from a near-death and sexual assaults at Drake University to record-high hospitalizations at the University of Iowa. Last night, a panel of local addiction prevention experts met to discuss the issue of binge drinking in higher education, according to a report in [...]
Following up on last week’s article in Advertising Age about anti-binge drinking advertisements that backfire with their intended audiences, GW Hatchet columnist Evan Schwartz sketched out his alternative vision of a responsible drinking campaign. He wrote that many anti-binge drinking advertisements fail to focus on the root of the problem, and are therefore ineffective:
“If anyone [...]
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Late last week, Genaro Armas of the Associated Press introduced his readers to a recent tradition at Penn State University: “State Patty’s Day,” an unofficial holiday which takes place before St. Patrick’s Day. After its creation in 2007, the event quickly became infamous for heavy drinking, and this year, University administrators and local officials tried [...]
Amanda Jacobowitz, a columnist with Student Life at Washington University in St. Louis, asked her peers a direct question in her latest column: “Are we the blackout generation?” She argued that her peers have become desensitized to the dangers of toxic drinking and indifferent to the consequences:
“The excessive nature of college drinking is normalized into [...]
Good news! Our idea on Change.org took 3rd place in its category, and has advanced to the final round of voting, which begins at 1 PM EST on Monday, March 1 and will conclude at the end of the week. Vote totals will be reset to zero across the board when the [...]
Alan Schier Zagier filed an Associated Press report this morning on a new trend among Midwestern colleges and universities: women are using “shot books” to commemorate their 21st birthdays, with one shot for every year represented. A professor of psychology at the University of Missouri called these books “a real tradition”:
“Shot books are made by [...]
Kelsey McKinney, a Dallas-area high school senior and “Student Voices” columnist for the Dallas Morning News, has seen the unintended consequences of Legal Age 21 firsthand. In her Sunday column, she proposed a potential solution to the problem of toxic drinking that she has witnessed among her peers: lower the drinking age.
McKinney spared few details [...]
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BC Heights columnist Joseph Pasquinelli took a hard look at the culture of toxic drinking at Boston College today, when he wrote that Legal Age 21 has contributed to a culture that “is not safe, responsible, or mature.” He observed how “weekend warriors are sent to the infirmary with alcohol poisoning. Others are ripping one [...]