On September 30th, 1998, Dan Sernovitz who wrote " A Nice Cold Beer Can Help After Class", and Kristen Frese who wrote " All A Bar Will Bring Is Problems", both published article in The University of Maryland Student Paper, The Diamond Back. The students debated whether or not the student administration should allow a bar on campus. Dan Sernovitz is for the bar, while Kristen Frese is against. Dan Sernovitz utilized persuasive techniques such as cause and consequence and creating a shared identity. Frese too cause and consequence, creating a shared identity, and also pathos. In my opinion the students would be more persuaded by Kristen Frese. Dan Sernovitz used cause and consequence the most in his article by saying "campus would be a whole …show more content…
She states " the other half of this column can attest to my beyond drunken state just this past weekend." In my opinion she added this detail to say yes I drink, but does that mean I feel the need for a bar on campus? Frese moved on to show her experience in the bar scene. "When I tended a bar, I saw the most docile of people Bust out swinging after a little bit of alcohol." By saying this she proves anyone can become someone else under the influence of alcohol. Creating a shared identity help Frese show she wasn't just looking to ruin everybody's dun time, but protect the students on campus. Frese showed another persuasive technique called pathos. She makes the students put in prospective what kind of imagine the school should have. She ask "is this really the image we want on campus or want campus visitors to see when they stop by?" She then evoked fear in the students by saying " any Peeping Tom, Dick or Harry, along with Jane Doe" could come on campus. She brings to the light that the campus already has a drunken reputation. Why would the students want to encourage the rumors, and make them even more
First, they explain cognitive behavior therapy and use the “mental distortions” identified by it to describe what’s happening in colleges. Then, they claim that emotional reasoning, allowing your emotions to color how you perceive reality, is prevalent in many campuses and is viewed as legitimate reasoning. They support this claim be providing examples, one of which is about a student who was found guilty of racial harassment for reading a book whose cover offended at least one other student. Then, they mention how a Hump Day event, which had camel petting motivated by a popular TV commercial, was cancelled for supposedly being offensive to people from the Middle East
It is a fact of life that Alcoholism will distort the victim’s view of reality. With authors, they put parts of their personality and symptoms of their condition into their characters sometimes, flawed distortions included, with varying degrees
Scrivo, K. (1998, March 20). Drinking on campus. CQ Researcher, 8, 241-264. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
“80 percent of teen-agers have tried alcohol, and that alcohol was a contributing factor in the top three causes of death among teens: accidents, homicide and suicide” (Underage, CNN.com pg 3). Students may use drinking as a form of socializing, but is it really as good as it seems? The tradition of drinking has developed into a kind of “culture” fixed in every level of the college student environment. Customs handed down through generations of college drinkers reinforce students' expectation that alcohol is a necessary ingredient for social success. These perceptions of drinking are the going to ruin the lives of the students because it will lead to the development alcoholism. College students who drink a lot, while in a college environment, will damage themselves mentally, physically, and socially later in life, because alcohol adversely affects the brain, the liver, and the drinkers behavior.
According to Smith,?Reports of binge drinking come from all types of campuses across the country. In 1992, researchers reported that more college students were drinking to get drunk than their counterparts a decade earlier, and one recent study reported an increase, just since 1994, in the number of students who drink deliberately to get drunk. Smith - 1. I interviewed my friend Shelly Mitchell, who recently turned twenty-one, and asked her how she felt about finally being legal to drink. She quoted,?It is not as exciting to drink anymore,
We knocked on the door of the off-campus apartment, as it opened we were confronted with the heavy stench of alcohol. A young girl was passed out on the living room floor, a pile of empty beer cans filled the kitchen sink, and the deafening music rattled the window panes. A group of girls managed to stumble past us. They waved goodbye to the host, who was handing drinks to me and my sister. It was not my first time drinking. In fact, everyone there was quite experienced – after all, it’s college. Half of the guests were completely drunk, and I had no problem with it. That is, until later that night when my sister locked herself in a room with a guy she had met only a week before. This prompted me to seriously consider the effects of alcohol. Would my sister have been able to see the danger of the situation had she been sober? Would the absence of alcohol have prevented the events of that night from occurring? These questions, along with the vivid memory of that night, fueled my examination of the complex social problem of underage drinking.
Justin drinks a whole case of beer each day by himself and during the weekends he spends countless hours in the bar with his friends. His wife, Susan has brought it to his attention that she believes that he has a drinking problem. Oftentimes Susan and their children would find Justin passed out in the shed in the backyard where Justin’s “man cave” is also. He has been written up at work twice for falling asleep on the job because he has had a hangover and if he gets another one it will result in termination. In response to his wife 's allegations Justin says that he can stop drinking at any time and that he just drinks to relax himself after a long day at work, because his boss rides his back. Justin also says that since he works all week and have to come home to Susan nagging him and screaming kids, he looks forward to getting away to spend time at the bar on the
The United States beer industry represents 233 million hectoliters of the world’s 1,501 million hectoliters and is a dynamic part of the United States national economy, contributing billions of dollars in wages and taxes. Within the U.S., the beer market accounts for nearly 50% of total volume of alcohol, with the import specialty and light beer segments driving growth.
Worthern has created a sincere and serious tone to persuade her audience the importance of etiquette. The use of word choices like “stand up”, “vigilant defense” and “protect” shows her passion of establishing etiquette to include the “disempowered minorities” as well as to be the “guardians of civilization” due to the positive and protective connotation of the words. She also adopts a calming and informative tone to explain the significance and historical background of maintaining a respectful environment for both students and professors instead of creating an authoritative tone to doctrine and warn the students to discontinue their improper behavior. On the other hand, Wade adopts a demanding and sarcastic tone insisting upon the reader the proper behaviors of college students through colloquial language. The use of colloquial language although is effective because Wade’s intended audience is direct to students, she begins her list of “10 Things Every College Professor Hates” by the admonitory word “Don’t” which creates a satiric mood for the whole article. Wade coerces the reader to admit and accept her argument by appealing to the audiences’ guiltiness and criticizing the audience’s behaviors in academic environment. For example, “No, you didn’t miss anything
The overwhelming amount of college students deaths caused by binge drinking has increased greatly by about 44 percent. To go along with the amount of deaths is the amount of life long injuries one may obtain from binge drinking. As David L. Marcus states, in recent newspapers, headlines are troubling. “ A 20-year-old student at Georgetown University dies in a fight after drinking. A fraternity member at the University of Michigan shoots a 19-year-old pledge with a pellet gun at a keg party. A party at Washington State University turns into a 500-student brawl.” (David L. Marcus)
Weshler, Henry, and Wuethrich, Bernice. Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on college campuses. Chicago: Rodale Inc., 2002. Print.
The problem here is that students at college campuses across the United States, are binge drinking at an alarming rate. Yearly, students hurt themselves and others due to their alcoholism. Unfortunately, despite this being such a prominent problem, the research on this topic is not as extensive as it should be. It may seem that alcoholism is simply a small problem, and it is quite possible that it once was. But, when you have crimes being committed when students are blacking out and punch bowls being spiked so that students can drink only to wake up with their head in the toilet the next morning, it becomes clear that this is no longer an individual problem. Binge drinking is a problem and I would like to provide solutions. To do that, I first need to conduct extensive research at Big Name University on binge drinking amongst men and women here in order to find the problem, target the problem, and provide a plausible solution.
I attend a university whose motto is "work hard play harder," and I work in a bar. It's safe to say I have seen my share of the at times hilarious (and other times hilariously bad) effects that alcohol can have on people. This past particular Friday night was a devastating time for nearly everyone here on grounds, due to U.Va. basketball's shitshow of a less-than-stellar performance. I made an effort to observe how the actions of the students at the bar affected each other, and I found that conformity was very noticeable this night. Each basketball shot was followed by an alcohol shot, and the celebration and over-indulgent nature of each student at the bar seemed to have a contagious effect on everyone else. It seemed as though students only
University of Florida gave me an impression of seriousness when I visited it for the first time. Like what I imagined, the campus is filled with sharp-minded scholars, geniuses, and professionals, who strive to live a good life. As I dive into its environment after the summer starts, I am now discovering its enthusiastic side, surprising me with passion, interests, and love; however, the most unforgettable experiences I have so far are my first fraternity parties. A couple hundreds of well-dressed youngsters huddling inside a small frat house, nasty smells blended with humidly hot air irritating my senses, loud music with somewhat catchy rhythms piercing my eardrums and impacting on my brain, hands waiving in the air while bodies wiggling with beats and the other hands holding the red parties cups carrying some unknown liquids, this is the place where the most underage drinking happens at UF.
Most people do not realize that alcohol is a drug that claims the lives of youth in college campuses across the world. In my case, it took the encounter with the ORL staff at UCLA for me to come to understanding that I am putting myself and those around me in danger through my risky drinking habits. With hours of self-reflection and the help of a cosmopolitan article called The Deadly Drinking Mistakes Smart Girls Make, I have found that there are several risks associated with alcohol that can put me at a quarrel with death. Even so, drinking does not always need to be deadly, and by keeping in mind the well-being of my fellow bruins and the skills mentioned in the article, I can find a balance between drinking for fun and drinking till death.