College Alcohol Use Essay

Summary Argumentative essay on the topic of drinking on campus. Compares the consequences versus the benefits of alcohol consumption by college students. Drinking on campus is a problem that affects most college students, either directly or indirectly. I, for one, am against drinking on campus. As a student of Stevens Institute of Technology, I can say that drinking on campus is as rampant as a fire in a toothpick factory. Several friends of mine at colleges around the country tell me that their schools face the same problems.Here, at Stevens, much to the college communitys surprise, we had a snow solar day in February. The night before our well-deserved day off, a Tuesday, most of the general Stevens populous got drunk. That wouldnt have been so bad if everyone locked themselves in their manners and drank to their liver-coloreds con hug drugt, but it was not so. In addition to getting wasted, everyone partied all night, with music blasting and partiers yelling. Needless to say, i t wasnt a good night for anyone hard to get some sleep. The whole night wasnt wasted though it was fun watching inhibition-less people wander around.On a trip to the bathroom, I saw one guy making a fool of himself trying to get together with this girl. Ten minutes later, that same person walked into my room and sit down down on my chair. He then told me to get out of his room. A friend of mine had a similar experience. A drunken resident stumbled into his room and fell down on his bed, saying, I think Ill crash here tonight. Luckily, he got up and decided to leave before my friend thump the alcohol out of him. Upon reaching the door, it took him a good 10 seconds before he maked that the knob was on the other side.While I realize that college students generally dont have it easy and they need to unwind every now and then, large consumption of alcohol simply isnt the answer. I suppose its OK to go out and have a drink every now and then, but many people take that to an extreme. excess and simple, the statistics disfavor drinking on campus. Perhaps the most stunning statistic is the fact that fourteen-hundred college students between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four die each year from unintentional, alcohol-related injuries, the majority of which includes machine crashes.Thats not surprising when coupled with the fact that 2. 1 million students drove under the influence last year. Five hundred thousand more(prenominal) are inadvertently injured under the influence of alcohol and six hundred thousand students are assaulted by another student who has been drinking. Approximately xxv percent of college students accredit low academic performance to alcohol and thirty-one percent of students met criteria for a diagnosis of alcohol abuse. Another huge impact of alcohol is sexual abuse. In excess of seventy-thousand students fell victim to alcohol-related rape and sexual assault.Four hundred thousand students had unprotected sex and twenty five percent o f them say they were too drunk to even remember if they consented to it. Property damage is another plague brought unto colleges by alcohol abuse, especially here at Stevens, where several(prenominal) card-readers that allow access to residence halls were destroyed on several occasions. Around eleven percent of student drinkers say they have committed vandalism of blank space while drunk. Many administrators also report that their campuses have an increasing problem with alcohol-related property damage.Alcohol inevitably leads to health problems. More than one hundred and 50 thousand students develop alcohol-related health problems and almost 1. 5% of these students have attempted suicide. Five percent of college students are involved with the police for alcohol-related issues and an estimated one hundred and ten thousand students have been arrested as a result of their drinking. In conclusion, although I recognize the pro- side to this debatable issue, I think that the consequenc es of drinking far outdo the pleasures. Drinking should not be allowed on college campuses.