As a student here at Rutgers, I have realized that students are not offered clean and sober fun on the weekends. ... RUPA is a student organization that provides Rutgers students monthly events throughout the school year. ... According to Ukwayi, "Alcohol abuse cut-short the academic vision of colleges and universities and may undermine their aspiration of molding future citizens. ... This Program will be available for all students, both commuter students and students that live on campus. ... Students drink for many reasons, however many students drink just because they are bored. ...

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"Colleges should be given the chance to educate students who in all other respects are adults, in the appropriate use of alcohol, within the campus boundaries and out in the open," according to John McCardell, president emeritus of Middlebury College. ... James Wright, the president of Dartmouth College says, "If the nation could send 18-year-olds to Iraq then it should be deemed reasonable that students be able to drink legally at age 18 in the United States" ("Hanson, 2013). ... Lowering the drinking age to 18 years old would significantly reduce the amount of binge...

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Alcoholic beverage advertising seeks to promote excessive consumption of alcohol. Alcoholic beverage advertisers do not inform consumers of the adverse impacts of their product in the daily bombardment of billboards, magazine, television and radio advertisements. This essay will establish a link between alcoholic beverage advertising and excessive alcoholic consumption which is a recognised factor in the onset of alcohol related disease. Exposure to alcohol messages is an everyday occurrence. Most of these messages are encountered in the mass media as part of non-commercial programming. ...

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The alcohol consumption of U.S college students who reside in fraternity houses have been found to be higher than those who reside elsewhere (Larimer, 2000), and people can be influenced to drink more if their drinking partner is consuming significantly more alcohol (Watson & Sobell, 1982). ...

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Statistics from CDC states that roughly 75% of high school students have tried alcohol and about 26% of teen have had recent episode of heavy drinking, which is more than five drinks within a couple of hours. ... Statistics have shown that more males binge drink than females , in the research it shows that 21.3% vs. 16.1%, ages 12 to 20, but more in collage students ( Center For Science In The Public Interest). ... The rates do vary from different colleges. According to the NIAA, a study conducted estimated 1.700 college students die each year because of alcohol related unintentional injurie...

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Studies have shown that the amount of drinking that goes on in colleges is higher than anywhere else and that alcohol is the underlying cause in 50% of date rape cases. There is a strong negative correlation between low GPA scores and the amount of alcohol consumption in college students. ...

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