Other projects completed this year included a greek summit, where media images of the greek system were explored, and the 20 Cameras project, which was aimed to change the perceptions of what the life of a typical college student is like. Three years into the project, Major said she felt good about the progress NU Directions had made. Changing attitudes about high-risk drinking takes time. She suspected it would take two groups of students to pass through the university before the environment began to change. This has to go on for years and years and years and years.
Environmental change is slow.
Even then, obstacles remain to changing the environment. Students of UNL's past reflect back to memories of wilder times, he said. The rate of binge drinking is high among Nebraska's high school seniors. That presents a problem once they get to college, Major said. But Major said the steps made so far showed environmental change was possible.