AlcoholEdu

[Kevin]

Has anyone checked this online course out? Our national office has set a deal up with them for all our undergrad brothers to go through the course. It's an online course about alcohol use that lasts about 2 hours.

It has some faults. For example, from what I could tell, all the data it cited came from that Harvard study about alcohol use among college students. It does, however, have a lot of good information that may seem obvious to some, but could potentially provide members with information they can use to make better decisions.

Has anyone else's national office signed onto this?

[DeltAlum]

Delts Talk About Alcohol (DTAA) is a program that the Fraternity has run for a number of years. It is said to be the first Fraternity sponsored alcohol awareness program which received government funds to complete it.

Note that I say it's an alcohol awareness, not an anti-drinking program. It talks about how alcohol affects the body, etc. and counsels moderation.

Several other fraternities and sororities have adopted or adapted it for themselves with Delt's permission.

[Janerz222]

Kappa Alpha Theta uses AlcoholEdu for all of its collegiate chapters. We've used it for about a year or two. Sorry I don't have any first-hand knowledge about how it's working for our chapters. . .Perhaps a Theta collegian can post.

[AGDee]

We have a program called "Get Real: Thinking About Drinking" that travelling visitors do with our chapters. It focuses on awareness but also on attitudes toward alcohol and also emphasizes moderation.

Dee

[Paul_flan84]

In england we drink from 18, so by the age of 20 your pretty much passed the lets drink till we puke phase. We do drink heavily though, i guess its engrained in our culture, but we're taught at school to understand the consiquences. By university they expect us to know, and if we don't, the bouncers at the club let us know by throwing us out. Any way, with a bottle of scotch costing £15.00 ($27.00), i dont know how we manage to drink so much. Beer is good at a cool £2.00 a pint ($3.60). Taxation over here hikes everything up a few notches. Sucks doesn't it.

Paul

[madmax]

Most alcohol programs are a waste of time. Everyone has already heard the same alcohol is bad speach a million times.



More importantly they don't address the major problem that exists on a college campus. How is a barely post pubescent, zit faced freshman gonna get laid without booze? Answer that will ya.

[Tom Earp]

WOW, MadMax, Your are absolutley Right! So if that is the zit faces you pledge then find a Hooker Parlor for them!

But who pays for it? Chapter??

Must be a heck of a Chapter!

[Pi Kapp 142]

Pi Kappa Phi has both its own in-house program and AlcoholEdu. Each year you do one or the other, as in you have to have %100 participation for AE and %85 for the in-house one, called the STAR program. Gargh, and insurance is going way up too!