Friday, January 12, 2007

Wrong Substitute

Kenneth A. Bruffee wrote "Binge Drinking as a Substitute for a 'Community of Learning'" since students head to wrong directions in college drinking and having accidents instead of studying and learning what college offers them. A strong reason that Bruffee gives for such behavior of students is because they do not have the ability to make friends. Students rather join fraternities and sororities using them as shields to protect themselves from other students that are not willing to make new friends. Bruffee gives his own experience as an example making his article more persuasive to the reader as well as facts and information that supports his point. He believes that drinking problems with students would go down if colleges would generate social activities in order to make friends. Choosing the wrong substitute for learning is not going to help. Frienship is one solution.

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