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Originally Posted by bejazd
Yes, SDSU has a reputation for being a party school. But these kinds of issues- i.e. binge drinking and recreational drug use can start in middle school! Keep in mind that SDSU has 30K students. It's a small city.
You can go there and get a great education and go off and lead a great life, or you can party until you flunk out and go bag groceries. I've seen people do both!
I hope what the greek community does with this is to develop more alternative social activities so new members can get to their first formal and not feel like it wouldn't be a formal without alcohol and..whatever. But it's a tough sell to get young people to realize they can have a great social life and be responsible. Grad Nite at my son's HS was cancelled this year because not enough kids signed up...and the ASB leadership set the tone when they announced they would not go because it was alcohol free. How sad is that?
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What's ASB?
This post brings up a point worth noting I think.
Sometimes, you have to know your audience, and that messages that seem overblown, exploitative, and sentimentalized to adults are actually appealing to the age group who most need to be reached with the message which often is the self absorbed, unrealistic, overly dramatic adolescent. So discussions about drugs and alcohol abuse actually might be more effective at the level that disgusts 33Girl.