Journal 5

Binge drinking is becoming a serious problem for nowadays’ college students. According to a Harvard study, the author mentions, “Among students who drink, 52 per cent said a major motivation was ‘to get drunk,’ compared 39 per cent in the first study” (Wechsler 20). The survey from Harvard shows that instead of getting released, the intemperance problem is becoming more and more serious. In Wechsler’s article, he mentions the reasons of for binge drinking’s hard to decrease: “For one thing, binge drinking has been so deeply entrenched for so long at colleges that it can’t be expected to disappear overnight. However, the more important reason that change eludes us is that some colleges have relied too much on one approach to solve the problem—trying to get the binge drinkers themselves to stop, rather than focusing equal attention on factors that make it easy for students to drink too much.”

In order to solve the problems caused by binge drinking, several actions should be taken. Firstly, Wechsler said that doing research into actual behavior and then informing students about how many students actually binge would help binge drinkers realize the truth that there are no that students who are binge drinkers. The second approach, which I think is most efficient from Wechsler’s article that students who become drunk and disorderly should be made to take responsibility for the messes they made. Such solution can help binge drinkers notice how disturbing they are and will make up for the trouble they made at a certain extent.

As far as I am concerned, those binge drinkers who have made big issues to the public should be punished by the university. It is reasonable to expel such annoying students. All in all, binge drinking is a serious problem which should be stopped.