Binge-Drinking Reading Response

after reading this article i realized it was weird that our collrge campus didnt have any posters or campaigns up about the college drinking that goes on here in Staten Island. Although we do not have dorms or things of that nature in CSI our college drinking takes place in actual bars and clubs or peoples houses or school parks, anywhere – which depending how you look at it may be worse than actual collrge dorm room binges.

I feel CSI should post some anti-binge drinking posters up around campus just to see how our students may react.

i especially liked the campaign featuring “Dirk”, these campaigns show pictures of certain negative consequences surrounding heavy alcohol intake. In Ohio they actually have tv commercials directed towards this behAVIOR. Maybe iyts me and im not catching these things here but it seems like we do not have enough anti-binge drinking campaigns here.

however i already knew that when it comes to preventative behavior young people have a sick denial chip implanted in their brains. they do not feel anything horrible can happen to them. Long term problems of drinking are way too far away for young people to even grasp. they just do not care enough.

i think agood idea is to maybe have people their own age the focus of the campaigns, like the Ohio ” dirk” campaign, or real actual people showing alcohol has negatively affected them. the more they see that young people are at risk too the more they will embed the image in their heads subconcsiously.

The University of Delaware’s campaign however did not strike me as effective. It smply stated that the students should be fed up with being perceived as a party school. And a picture of a messy dorm room as thre bait? come on! not evere enough to impact anyone. A messy room and some puke is easy the students need to see something worse, something harder and more in yoyr face terrifying.

That’s all I have to say about this article… for now….