Alcohol... negative effects.


During our 3rd Skype exchange Laura, Isabella and I had really a good time. It was Laura's first day after the Spring Break which is a week where no lessons take place at the university and students are usually very busy with alcohol parties on campus. She told us something about the fraternities and the sororities at Tulane University: Isabella and I
were very interested in it because in the italian universities they don't exist. Of course we wanted to know if what we're used to see in the american films really happens in everyday life at the american universities.

Fraternities and sororities are famous for drinking: they organize hard alcohol events best known as keg parties. Laura explained us that to join a fraternity or a sorority one has to commit hazing violations which are much more tragically famous in the southern universities. At Tulane, for example, fraternity hazings mainly consist of getting completely wasted.

She said she left her sorority only after one semester because she didn't like it and above all because it was very expensive: she had to pay dues in order to stay, money used to rent venues for drinking games and crazy parties, to buy hard alcohol and to hire the room where they were used to meet every week to organize their activities.

Unfortunately alcohol has been a part of university life since ages and remains nowadays the drug most abused by students. Alcohol has become a prominent point of discussion on campus because students who engage in high-risk drinking are at the most risk for negative consequences such as academic problems, legal and disciplinary sanctions and injuries.

Alice


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