college drinking
Everyone always hears stories about how wild and crazy fraternity parties can get and everyone always sees the drunken college guys streaking naked down the streets in movies. Stories upon stories and jokes upon jokes about the act of college drinking have amused our dinner table conversations for ages. However, is college drinking a problem? ... Should parents and universities be worried about the amount of drinking that takes place on college campuses and should steps be taken to subdue this common occurrence? Or should college drinking be overlooked as another rite of passage, as a means of growing up? Should we just have the mindset that students go through a phase of heavy drinking and most outgrow it so it should not be addressed as a serious problem? College drinking is a very common occurrence on college campuses around the country. In a 1993 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS), they found that only 15. ... 6% engaged in occasional heavy episodic drinking, and 19.5% engaged in frequent heavy episodic drinking in the year preceding the survey (Knight et al. ... Heavy episodic drinking consists of an individual consuming 5 or more drinks in a single sitting if a male or consuming 4 or more drinks in a single sitting if a female and frequent heavy episodic drinking is defined as three or more occasions of heavy episodic drinking in the past two weeks (Knight et al. ... Another study that shows how prevalent college drinking is comes out of an article by O’Malley and Johnston (2002). This study, Monitoring the Future (MTF), which was conducted by the University of Michigan, found that two of every three college students (70%) had had an alcoholic drink in the 30 days prior to the survey, and more than half of these students (40%) had been drinking heavily on at least one occasion in the past two weeks. Four studies, the MTF, CAS, NCHRBS (National College Health Risk Behavior Survey), and CORE (The Core Institute) have all found that about 2/5 of American college students can be termed as binge drinkers (O’Malley and Johnston, 2002).