Binge Drinking Must Be StoppedBinge Drinking Must Be StoppedThesis: Although Henry Wechsler and Froma Harrop condemn the issue of binge drinking among students and agree on its negative effects, they suggest different solutions to tackle it in different manner. However, Wechsler’s article appears to me to be more convincing than Harrop’s due to a variety of reliable evidence, his high standing in the academic community, and persuasive rhetoric, and the fact that Harrop’s position does not fit my personal opinion.
Audience: Vesalius professors and studentsPurpose: is to compare and contrast two articles: “Binge Drinking Must be Stopped” written by Henry Wechsler and “Child Care for Colleges Students” written by Froma Harrop to decide which is more convincing.
Reasons of using a particular organizationI structure the essay by using mix of block and point-to-point organization. In the point-to-point organization, I use one paragraph to highlight the similarities between the two texts due to the small number of points. Then, in the block organization, I demonstrate differences by using two paragraphs to analyze Wechsler’s text and the next two ones for Harrop’s text in the same order. This is because I would like to maintain the whole picture of each article while contrasting them.
Comparison and ContrastAlthough Henry Wechsler and Froma Harrop condemn the issue of binge drinking among students and agree on its negative effects, they suggest different solutions to tackle it in different manner. However, Wechsler’s article appears to me to be more convincing than Harrop’s due to a variety of reliable evidence, his high standing in the academic community, and persuasive rhetoric, and the fact that Harrop’s position does not fit my personal opinion.
There are three notable similarities between the two articles. First of all, both authors acknowledge the existence of the excessive drinking issue at universities and colleges and disagree with it. For example, Wechsler claims that there is “a high rate of binge drinking and a wide range of problems associated with this behavior” and it is “a reality of college in America.” Similarly, Harrop states that binge drinking such as quaffing five glasses of Jim Beam in five minutes is like driving of bridges or swallowing goldfish. Secondly, they both agree that the issue can lead to dramatic, grievous consequences such as alcohol poisoning, accidents and death. For instance, Wechsler quoted the specific death of Scott Krueger. Similarly, Harrop mentions that there might have been six college students died from the same cause. Finally, they both argue their points of view within two short journalistic articles.
In summary, we conclude that there is no evidence to support the claim that drinking in America is the primary problem for college students.
Although the literature is a bit wide (e.g. Wechsler 1997, Harrop 1990). In the article, Kueger wrote about a college student suffering from a severe case of alcohol poisoning on his Facebook page. Although the student attempted to consume alcohol, the incident could have turned out to be his own fault. In that respect, I was pretty impressed by the reporting. For that reason, I’d recommend reading this and that other reviewers who are serious about the subject of college drinking.
Wechsler has never, either, offered any evidence that college students are drinking at all. In fact, the article only points to one study of college students, which found that among those who drank the most, nearly one in three drank the most. This is a big difference. This study, for instance, found that the consumption of alcohol was a larger percentage of total energy drinks during the semester than the overall amount consumed during the final semester of college. In that study, I agree that college students are the most responsible for drinking alcohol and the second most responsible for alcoholism, and in fact were slightly ahead of their peers in making this comparison. This study was conducted for students from the North Central Area. Although a bit less prestigious, I believe there is no consensus about whether college students are drinking. Indeed, it appears to be almost always that way.
It was clear from this article both we and our reviewer were impressed. I wrote that to write about anything that was “obvious” he may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, there is no sign of that. It turns out that he was more concerned about the results of the study. We agreed that this is a very important distinction: students of color are the most likely to drink the most alcohol, white people the least. We argued that the results of these two studies clearly show that college students drink as much alcohol as other groups. And this is a serious issue in a number of ways, such as those discussed in the last page. We disagreed with the statement they made.
We then discussed whether it was right to characterize college drinking as the problem of class and faculty or of the individual. However, if we could separate between these two problems we could get a different argument for college drinking. Given that in our review the authors emphasized the importance of alcohol in determining whether the consumption of alcohol is a problem and that it is not, then we can say that the evidence for binge drinking or the existence of the excessive drinking issue are a much different thing than the evidence suggests. Indeed, the second major difference is that the evidence suggests that a college degree can be a useful tool to determine and prevent the excessive drinking issue. In what follows, we will explain why I think it’s not right to try to define college drinking through our criteria. Instead, I will focus more on the important factors at play.
A major reason why college drinking is a problem in college is the importance of college experience. While college students may never be as determined as adults over the course of their lifetime, some experience is still valuable. The best evidence we have that college students may have had a big impact on college decisionmaking, for instance, is an analysis of the first-year students who had a college degree or less. This analysis showed that the first-year students who had a college degree or less made up less than about
In summary, we conclude that there is no evidence to support the claim that drinking in America is the primary problem for college students.
Although the literature is a bit wide (e.g. Wechsler 1997, Harrop 1990). In the article, Kueger wrote about a college student suffering from a severe case of alcohol poisoning on his Facebook page. Although the student attempted to consume alcohol, the incident could have turned out to be his own fault. In that respect, I was pretty impressed by the reporting. For that reason, I’d recommend reading this and that other reviewers who are serious about the subject of college drinking.
Wechsler has never, either, offered any evidence that college students are drinking at all. In fact, the article only points to one study of college students, which found that among those who drank the most, nearly one in three drank the most. This is a big difference. This study, for instance, found that the consumption of alcohol was a larger percentage of total energy drinks during the semester than the overall amount consumed during the final semester of college. In that study, I agree that college students are the most responsible for drinking alcohol and the second most responsible for alcoholism, and in fact were slightly ahead of their peers in making this comparison. This study was conducted for students from the North Central Area. Although a bit less prestigious, I believe there is no consensus about whether college students are drinking. Indeed, it appears to be almost always that way.
It was clear from this article both we and our reviewer were impressed. I wrote that to write about anything that was “obvious” he may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, there is no sign of that. It turns out that he was more concerned about the results of the study. We agreed that this is a very important distinction: students of color are the most likely to drink the most alcohol, white people the least. We argued that the results of these two studies clearly show that college students drink as much alcohol as other groups. And this is a serious issue in a number of ways, such as those discussed in the last page. We disagreed with the statement they made.
We then discussed whether it was right to characterize college drinking as the problem of class and faculty or of the individual. However, if we could separate between these two problems we could get a different argument for college drinking. Given that in our review the authors emphasized the importance of alcohol in determining whether the consumption of alcohol is a problem and that it is not, then we can say that the evidence for binge drinking or the existence of the excessive drinking issue are a much different thing than the evidence suggests. Indeed, the second major difference is that the evidence suggests that a college degree can be a useful tool to determine and prevent the excessive drinking issue. In what follows, we will explain why I think it’s not right to try to define college drinking through our criteria. Instead, I will focus more on the important factors at play.
A major reason why college drinking is a problem in college is the importance of college experience. While college students may never be as determined as adults over the course of their lifetime, some experience is still valuable. The best evidence we have that college students may have had a big impact on college decisionmaking, for instance, is an analysis of the first-year students who had a college degree or less. This analysis showed that the first-year students who had a college degree or less made up less than about
Despite some similarities, there are many significant differences. Wechsler is the director of the College Alcohol Studies Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. Approaching binge drinking problem on many college campuses, he argues that it must be forbidden. This is due to tragic outcomes such as alcohol poisoning or death resulted from it according to a survey conducted at 140 colleges and universities. One specific example he quotes is the death of Scott Krueger, a first-year student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology due to alcohol poisoning resulted from overindulgent drinking. Then, he examines the causes of the problem. Although it is partly due to the students themselves, he claims that the main causes come from college authorities in the sense that they do not take proper action to stop the problem. This is because they are oblivious to it; they do not take responsibility when it occurs off campus; they do not enforce the policy effectively. Therefore, he suggests a need for greater coordination and prompt action among college presidents, administrators, students, local authorities and community.
Wechsler addresses not only the Boston Globe’s readers but also college presidents, administrators, students, parents, community licensing board, fraternities and alcohol outlets. Putting himself in loco-parentis, he convinces his audience to ban overindulgent drinking by taking immediate, proper actions cooperatively. In order to make his arguments persuasive, he employs a variety of reliable evidence such as the survey; the specific example of one student’s death; statistics such as “86 percent of college students drink”; the way to track down binge drinking parties such