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Neither I nor my fellow freshmen have received any substantial alcohol education from the College. We watched a video entitled “Empowering You,” had a brief talk with our proctors and got a ten-minute lecture from the Assistant Deans of Freshmen. But all we learned was the letter of Massachussetts...
While this program is laudable in scope and effort, alcohol abuse is a much more prevalent and potentially dangerous problem on campus, which is why we must increase student knowledge with a similarly styled program on alcohol...
...that it was not a school for passive students. If I needed help or advice, I would have to ask for it. While there is nothing wrong with requiring students to be assertive, the College cannot realistically expect students to browse the UHS website to learn the signs of alcohol poisoning, or where to take a friend who needs alcohol counseling...
According to Dr. Paul Barreira, most activities related to freshmen alcohol use are “focused on how to help students who may have drunk too much and should have medical attention.” The College currently relies on reactive measures—like distributing alcohol brochures to students who have already been admitted to UHS for alcohol poisoning. In order to be effective, it must educate students sooner by beginning an interactive outreach program to educate students about the danger of alcohol, such as it did in “Sex Signals” for rape...
This is not a new idea. In fact, it was specifically proposed in the Committee on Alcohol and Health’s Final Report, which was released this past September. But, with typical sluggishness, the College has done little with these findings to help current freshmen. Said Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 in an email, “I hope, with the appointment of a alcohol coordinator, to develop more extensive educational programs for freshmen next year...