The Solution To Binge Drinking On College Campuses

From the New York Times Letters to the Editor via here:

The solution to binge drinking problems on campuses is simple: college curriculums need to be more rigorous. If college programs required their students to put in a significant number of hours per week doing work related to their classes, campus drinking would soon find itself limited to one or two nights a week.

Furthermore, those few nights a week would be more moderate, since the students would drink knowing that they needed to get up in the morning and keep hacking away at that thermodynamics problem set.

I suspect that one of the main reasons students who aren’t in college drink less than college students is that they have to get up in the morning and go to work at a real job, where they are accountable for their behavior.

Caroline Figgatt
Munich, July 1, 2009

The writer is a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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I think this cannot be avoided in college campuses because of too much stress or pressure. I suggest that administrators forward the cases to rehabilitation centers so they can still learn and be emotionally healthy still.

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Hello Caroline! I agree with what you said about students who aren't involved in drinking are those who needed to check their behavior because of other responsibilities they need to attend aside from being students. These type of people are compelled to be in their best behavior if they want to succeed in life; the thing that those students in binge of drinking in college campuses must realize now. Drinking is okay as long as it does not compromise important things in life such as education.

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Or, gee, how about you KICK THEM OUT OF SCHOOL after they're caught.

Instead, most campuses have little deals with local police departments to ignore the parties, the underage drinking, and all the dirty, little shenanigans that often go on in plain sight.

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Make them live in people houses instead of dorms, and clean up their own puke.

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I'm not sure I agree with that. Many of the binge drinkers are already missing classes and skipping assignments. I don't think a more rigorous schedule would change that.