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i'm going to jump in here and agree with psychtau. i, like her, work on campus. i also advise greeks....at a rather small, rural campus.
i see her point. I talk to students ALL THE TIME whose life seems to revolve around alcohol. convesations start with "at this party...." "there's a party....." "my guys won't come if there's no alcohol" and so on.
i have nothing against alcohol. i even like it and have had a few stupid drunk moments in the last year and half. yes, i agree with a lot of the things james said. you just need to see our point of view when we are talking to these students day in and day out and alcohol pops into about 80% of our conversations, especially when it involves some sort of out of class social activity.
heck, there have been some in class moments too. students go to class drunk, they go to meetings drunk, they go to work drunk, they come to visit me drunk (not often, but a couple of times and not just at my current campus). and they are at parties drunk, they go to the bars and get drunk, etc. there are plenty of opportunities for them to drink and socialize with members of the other sex, so to complain that for ONE NIGHT for just a few hours, they cannot drink and make such a big freakin' deal about it is STUPID.
i don't think alcohol is evil. like many things, it is bad when consumed in excess. i just don't understand why students complain so much about not being able to drink like 5-10 nights of the year when they can pretty much drink every other night of the year.
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