WUSTL Student Life: Are We The Blackout Generation?
WUSTL Student...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 our culture and has turned into something we don’t even question anymore. When we guzzle down drink after drink, we are inducing memory loss and we are putting ourselves, our health, our relationships, even our lives at risk! Yet, every weekend, we start again, just waiting to see who blacks out next—immune to the consequences.”
Does her account match up with your experience on your campus or in your community? Let us know in the comments.