College is about casual sex. A student at Boston University told the authors that the threat of AIDS means that a student will observe a person for a while before sleeping with him. A dean at the University of Texas at Arlington offered another connection between alcohol and sex. Women and minorities are challenging the shrinking job pool. Men find a macho conviviality in alcohol, and this leads to angry feelings and abuse, especially sexual abuse.
Alcohol is the drug of choice among many college students.
There has always been drinking on college campuses, the authors note. The issue today is the amount of alcohol consumed and the problems that ensue. 60 percent of college women diagnosed last year with a sexually transmitted disease were drunk at the time of infection. Two-thirds of college student suicide victims were intoxicated at the time of death. Conflicting hopes and fears batter the current generation of college student.