Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson for exclusivity and narrow-mindedness reflect uneasiness about unwarranted social identification. To know that fraternities deserve at least such scrutiny--and remember that they exist only for such social identification--one need simply look at the news. Reports of some fraternities' problems with sexual harassment, racial insensitivity, alcohol abuse, etc., are not unfounded...
There are other distress signals as well. Interest in food or sex often flags, while indulgence in alcohol or drugs deepens. People may be jumpy and their tempers short. In the first seven months after the Mount St. Helens blowup, reports of domestic violence in Othello, Wash., increased 45%, and criminal arrests went up 22%, according to one study. The most profound impact is a new sense of vulnerability. Victims wonder when disaster will strike again and conjure up fresh calamities. "Disasters like earthquakes challenge a fundamental fantasy that we live with: that we're immortal," explains psychiatrist David Spiegel...
Raising the drinking age to 21 has also made it difficult for the College to enforce a uniform alcohol policy, says Bossert. Since some students are able to drink and others are not, police cannot simply concentrate on parties that go out of control, he says...
...because the college can no longer sponsor social functions that include alcohol, students are more likely to drink on their own, he says...
...past, some college officials have suggested experimentation with alcohol is an unavoidable "maturation rite," Johnson says. Adherents of this view cite surveys tracking college classes over a four-year period, which suggest that although students tend to drink excessively during their first years, consumption decreases by their senior years...