Wechsler gave many possible ways that colleges could react
to binge-drinking behavior on campus. Most of them would truly work in my
opinion.
Firstly,
we should think about why so many students drink excessively. Like the author
reports, “One is that students who binge tend to think they represent the norm;
they argue that they’re doing what most of their peers do” (Wechsler 21). So
the first suggestion that “doing research into actual behavior and then
informing students about how many students actually binge”(Wechsler 21)
definitely would work. If students who often have binge drinking notice they
are only a very small group among peers, they will aware that they are the unnormal
behaviors. In this way, they will refuse alcohol gradually.
The
second way reported “to focus on the disruptive behavior of binge drinkers” is
also useful. Because no one can afford the serious consequences of the messes
he created after drunkenness such as a big sum of money if you hurt others when
you are drunk and being expelled from school.
And
another suggestion that introducing the harm of drunk at the high-school level would
also work. As a motto says, nip in the bud. If they are told in advance, less
excessive drinking phenomena will happen.
As
far as I’m concerned, that a behavior is good or bad should have unified
understanding by the mass. As we all know, appropriate alcohol is good for
health, but too much definitely hurt your body. So the first class in college
can be like this, notify the freshman that the damage of binge drink such as the
invocatable harm to our body and illustrating pictures of diseased organs.
I
do think binge-drinking behavior should be stopped in campus. Even adults much
older than us could not control their intake of alcohol, we may be more careful
about binge drinking. If we must celebrate something with a little alcohol
drinks, we can go out of campus. Above all, binge drinking should be banned in
campus, but alcohol drink can be taken in appropriately out of campus.
There are so many possible reasons that lead to the binge drinking problem in students. The author points out some of these problems and propose some possible solutions of them. Some of the ways are suitable for some specific colleges; meanwhile, some are not. So analyzing the conditions and choosing the best way for their own is definitely the most important for each university.
ReplyDeleteYes. No one policy can be applied to all situations, we should act according to circumstances.
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