About a week ago a member of a fraternity at my school, SDSU, died. He partied a little too hard, he was on coke and had a lot of alcohol in his system. At SDSU everybody parties all week. Of course it it more so condensed into the weekend, which includes Thursday here. One response to his was death from one of his fraternity brothers was, "Yea mannn, I'll party hard for you bro!" Now how do we even begin to describe this type of ignorance? And of all things you would think that my college would have learned their lesson after a girl died last spring from alcohol, coke, and ecstacy. Are they really that dumb? Or do they have emotional problems? These are students who had the grades to get into SDSU and yet they repsond to a death in the Greek community as an excuse to get wasted the next weekend. Approximately 240,000 to 360,000 of the nation's 12 million current undergraduates will ultimately die from alcohol-related causes--more than the number that will get MAs and PhDs combined. (Eigen, 1991 in the 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse). Sixty percent of college women diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease were drunk at the time of infection. (Advocacy Institute, 1992). We can see from these stats that it is really a huge problem on our college campuses. Drinking in college is a social engagement but it becomes much more social for many students, especially women. So many things can go wrong when teens are mixed with alcohol. Not only can it impair your current judgement, but it can impair you brain growth seeing as though the average human brain isn't done growing until the age of 20. We all really need to think about how we react to death and make sure we understand the consequences of our actions. So sad that kids on college campuses don't get the help they need until it is too late.
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I have a problem with the statistics you used and their dates of publication. Back in the early 90s, premarital sex was not as acceptable as it is now. Buying condoms was more embarassing, and there weren't as many active programs to educate people about safe sex. I think that fewer people would contract diseases now than in that time period. Also, there is no way to tell exactly when and where an STD was transmitted. The only way to determine that the disease was contracted while drunk would be if the first and only time the person ever had sex, shared needles, or came in contact with others' body fluids was during a time in which the person was drunk.
More students recieve PhD and masters degrees now due to a more competitive job market, and alcohol education along with dry campuses has helped to curb those figures.
I do agree that it's a problem that should be addressed, but these are some good points that someone could present.
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