Chapter 16 Party Round the Team

In the late 1990’s Donna Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, had offered her suggestions on loosening the beer and circus escapade at the annual NCAA convention. She suggested that a collaborative action was necessary and universities can’t do it by themselves. But stopping drinking all together is impossible to do especially when many students are dependent on alcohol. “I have a lot of friends who won’t go out with me if it doesn’t involve alcohol.” It is so complicated to act upon the issues at college campuses because the students are so complicated themselves, who are still exploring and experimenting with each other and things.

College professors subjected to changing and rescheduling classes because students because students don’t come to class on certain days because they were partying the night before. Many students start their weekends Thursday and don’t end until late Sunday night. So Friday and Monday classes are washed out. It is proven from studies that excessive drinking is due to Greek Fraternities and College sports. The only way to end binge drinking is to end all the things that influence it and that will never happen.

The rest of the chapter was student comments in interviews and their responses to the questionnaire for the book. They are a continuation of how college sports are related to drinking and the devotion to beer and circus, and that is the difference between a school being a high binge or low binge institution.