If you or your department have an interest in creating a new web page or updating the page you have, contact Loretta in the PR office, x3040. News you ll notice Anne Ellefson, AODA Prevention Specialist Alcohol awareness week begins today. College life has become synonymous with party life. Popular perception portrays students moving from party to party in an alcohol-induced fog. Media depicts alcohol abuse, often humorously, as a collegiate norm.
Family folklore retells blowout college parties from the past.
Graduation cards, advertisements, mugs, and t-shirt slogans perpetuate the association between heavy drinking and the collegiate experience. News magazine programs focus on tragic cases of such abuse ending in death. Sensational stories noted and remembered, while more typical stories remain untold. Party night annals make no mention of students who spent the evening studying or working a second part-time job. Certainly, don't hold your breath for special reports about the full one-third of American college students who choose to abstain.