Stupid Colleges
In Kenneth Bruffe's essay on Binge Drinking I agree with him on the points of why new college students join fraternities and sororities. But, in the same since I disagree that is why they become binge drinkers. Fraternities and sororities alike have their good sides as well as their bad. I do not consider the drinking a bad choice of the fraternities and sororities, but a bad choice of public officials and collegial officials to allow the drinking that goes on around campuses nation wide. Collegic officals know as do everyone else that underage drinking occurs at fraternity houses as well as sorority houses, allowing this to happen is just encouraging the binge drinking to continue.
On another note fraternities and sororities are also great places to make friends of similar interests. The friends one makes in a fraternity or sorority usually last a lifetime; that is a great plus for joining a brother or sister hood among peers. Not only that but, when you join a fraternity or sorority you will have people in there that are majoring in the same field as you, so you have help with your academic success and learning.
11 comments:
I also disagree that frats and sororities are the cause of "binge drinking." Bruffee used the expression so often i was getting tipsy myself. I wonder how he feels about the occassional siping or "binge sipping" rather. I must add that underage drinking usually starts in highschool and with new unsupervised ground there will be more twisting of the caps. I would like to think that colleges are strict about the no-drinking policy, but they aren't police. If you can not balance your personal life with your school work then you won't survive anyway and i think the school systems count on that. These social groups are good for making friends as Riv has stated but I agree with Bruffee that the friendships are too predictable and sometimes boring.
I also disagree that the cause of "binge drinking" is from frats and sororities. Teenages come into the campus with the ambition to make friends and start a new life. Seeing that I am a freshman that is not my intentions. I am going to college to get a degree and better myself with a career. Underage drinking could start from middle school to high school, not just because of college. The true problem is that it increases when you are away from home with no parents. It comes with a package called "freedom". You have no one telling you right from wrong. So there you are with drinks and friends, what do you do? You can flush your innocence down the toilet or swallow your pride and shove off the alcohol. It's not because of sorors or frats, it's because of freedom.
I agree and disagree in the same sense as you do, but on another note if a incoming student comes to college to party whether they join a sorority or fraternaty makes no difference they will do what they came to do.
I agree with Tyler's point about underage drinking starting in high school. I don't drink, myself, and if I was planning on becomming a binge drinker, I don't think I'm going to start now. My "need" to be accepted doesn't depend on how much I drink. If you're drinking to get friends, that's just stupid.
Social groups are fine, but I think you do need to balance it out with school. You're paying for your classes to learn, not to get to do a social meet and greet.
I agree with Tyler when he said that most students are introduced to drinking while they are in high school, man I was at a party in the fifth grade when I was introduced to alcohol.
Personally, I think it all comes down to how people deal with peer pressure rather than a Greek enviroment or any other enviroment for that matter!
I disagree with Bruffee's essay because binge drinking can begin anywhere. College is not the birthplace of binge drinking. Freshman's are lonely when they come to college, but that's how you start out at every school. Being a freshman in High Shcool, Middle School, and College can be lonely. Colleges enforce no-drinking, but students will find a way to drink anyway. The school can only tell student not to drink, but a teenager is always going to do what he or she wants to do. Students enter school with lots of goals, but most of the time drinking and partying gets in the way.
I have the same opinion and oppose with Mr. Bruffe in that there is a wide spread amount of binge drinking at today’s college and universities. I however do not believe that ones choice to join a fraternity or sorority is a reason why they become a binge drinker. I believe that the fact that they are in a social group and the influence of those around them does have an influence on their actions but it is not the sole reason why one drinks. As in Mr. Bruffe’s article when he spoke of making the classroom a more social place for students so they don’t binge drink, I don’t believe that just because an individual is in an academic atmosphere they will not continue to binge drink.
College is a place were kids can just let back and not worry about what mommy and daddy think, thats why when kids get to college they either start drinking or they pick up the pace with their drinking
My insight is that binge drinking is going to happen no matter what. People have their own backgrounds and lifestyles. This, in my opinion, is what really determines whether a person decides to drink at college or not.
I disagree with Bruffee because binge drinking does not always start from joining fraternities and sororities. Some may binge drink at frat parties because everyone else is doing it, but really they are just trying to make friends. I agree that they become friends for life and how they help each other.
Post a Comment