Journal 5

Henry Wechsler, the author of “Getting Serious about Eradicating Binge Drinking,” discussed about ways to help decreasing colleges students drinking related issues. We could take a wide guess that binge drinking is overwhelming over college students just via the statistics from his article that there were 43 per cent of 14,500 students reported they binged at least once for continuing two weeks. (Wechsler 20)  Binge drinking is not only damaging health, but somehow it takes lives away as well. It is believed that sharing through peer would be more persuasive than through authorities because most people think that when adults speak about serious business it sounds like nagging. It is worth to look at one of the ways that Wechsler mentioned that peer has stronger influence on drinking; and it would be better to address the binge drinking through a forum between college students and freshmen rather than through a fraternity or tailgate parties. Wechsler says, “High-school students are more likely to believe the messages of college students than those of teachers and other adults.”(Wechsler 23) 

The author suggests that there is another way to reduce instead of stop binge drinking through educate college students lesson of drinking. Everything needs to be learned including drinking. There are many issues need to be properly presented to students; yet, most educational institutions dare not to touch the areas like drinking. We cannot expect students to figure out things on their owns without providing them strategies to deal with. Therefore, it is necessary to educate students with knowledge of drinking. The content should be covered with the history of alcohol, alcohol appreciation, alcohol and economy, alcohol and health, last but not the least, responsibility and obligation on drinking. Students are well equipped with knowledge of drinking, they will probably think twice before they dive into binge drinking.