For example, in the article: “Alcohol Consumption and Academic Retention in First-Year College Students,” Gary Liguori and Barb Lonbaken say that “Much has been written about the educational difficulties and academic consequences associated with alcohol use, including missing a class and getting behind in school work… performing poorly on a test or project… and experiencing a lower grade point average” (70). Apart from being academic success an important concern when talking about alcohol consumption, there are also other factors that hinder due to excessive alcohol consumption such as health.
Alcohol delusively damages consumers’ health, not taking into account if the user is a students, youth, or adult; unfortunately, students react carelessly about such important fact about alcohol consumption and rather have fun with it than caring for their own health. As an illustration, “The addition of another theory that appeals to more personal health decisions may be a useful way to focus students on their individual alcohol use instead of deflecting messages that represent their student community as a whole” (Champion et al. 58). As stated, alcohol is a commonly talked about topic in colleges, but not many of them help to eradicate the problem causing that more and more students drink on and off campus nowadays. On the other hand, the simple fact that alcohol it is prohibited in colleges does not mean that students will not make use of it as a mean of relaxation. Yet, there are many different reasons why students drink; several are linked to how they emotionally feel, causing a higher alcohol consumption during their college experience. While it is true that alcohol consumption hinders students’ health, academic performance, and forces them to misbehave, many students use and abuse alcohol drinking as a mean of relaxation or escape to different situations. Still, alcohol has lately been used to “scape reality” or to “forget problems for a short time.” To clarify on this issue, studies state that “Several noteworthy researchers have reported that low self-esteem, high anxiety, depression, lack of assertiveness and success in the attainment of life goals are obvious characteristics among adolescents problem drinkers” (Pullen 37). Alcohol should not only be seen as a corrupt behavior, because when there is alcohol consumption, there is surely another factor behind the action. This is not to say that “The end justifies the means” as Maquiavelo said, but it is to say that more attention should be focused to college students and their behaviors when the latter do not seem appropriated. Another consequence that arises due to college drinking is less time to study and as a result low academic performance too. For instance, Todd Wyatt a doctoral candidate at George Mason University, states that “[N]ext to time spent studying outside the classroom, time spent drinking was the most reliable predictor of a student’s grade point average” (qtd in Dell 1). Due to less …show more content…
On the other hand, it has also been expressed that a permissive parenting style enormously contributes to the college alcohol-drinking problem, and that the absences of a parental figure while students transition to college, also contributes to the misuse of the free will and college students tend to fall into debauchery. It is equally important to understand that peer drinking is a commonly used term to describe how and with whom a college student drinks immeasurably. In contrast, a college student could be drinking to satisfy a need such as acceptance, or to be helped him or herself go through an emotional feeling issue such as low-esteem or depression. To say the least, binge drinking might not only affect college students’ grades or harm their health, but also it might be a response to the disadvantaged college success itself, or a wakeup call to parents to pay more attention to their young adults’ behaviors. Consequently, due to excessive alcohol consumption, the result in most of the cases will be disreputable academic performance such as low grade point average or poor performance in scholarly activities. Not only that, but also college students’ health will be hindered. Finally, it seems that the most socially alarming consequence to the alcohol-drinking problem is the decrease in college students’ grades. However, in addition to the college student’s grades, health should go hand in hand with college students' grades as college grades can be increased, but a life can never be replaced with any letter
Alcohol delusively damages consumers’ health, not taking into account if the user is a students, youth, or adult; unfortunately, students react carelessly about such important fact about alcohol consumption and rather have fun with it than caring for their own health. As an illustration, “The addition of another theory that appeals to more personal health decisions may be a useful way to focus students on their individual alcohol use instead of deflecting messages that represent their student community as a whole” (Champion et al. 58). As stated, alcohol is a commonly talked about topic in colleges, but not many of them help to eradicate the problem causing that more and more students drink on and off campus nowadays. On the other hand, the simple fact that alcohol it is prohibited in colleges does not mean that students will not make use of it as a mean of relaxation. Yet, there are many different reasons why students drink; several are linked to how they emotionally feel, causing a higher alcohol consumption during their college experience. While it is true that alcohol consumption hinders students’ health, academic performance, and forces them to misbehave, many students use and abuse alcohol drinking as a mean of relaxation or escape to different situations. Still, alcohol has lately been used to “scape reality” or to “forget problems for a short time.” To clarify on this issue, studies state that “Several noteworthy researchers have reported that low self-esteem, high anxiety, depression, lack of assertiveness and success in the attainment of life goals are obvious characteristics among adolescents problem drinkers” (Pullen 37). Alcohol should not only be seen as a corrupt behavior, because when there is alcohol consumption, there is surely another factor behind the action. This is not to say that “The end justifies the means” as Maquiavelo said, but it is to say that more attention should be focused to college students and their behaviors when the latter do not seem appropriated. Another consequence that arises due to college drinking is less time to study and as a result low academic performance too. For instance, Todd Wyatt a doctoral candidate at George Mason University, states that “[N]ext to time spent studying outside the classroom, time spent drinking was the most reliable predictor of a student’s grade point average” (qtd in Dell 1). Due to less …show more content…
On the other hand, it has also been expressed that a permissive parenting style enormously contributes to the college alcohol-drinking problem, and that the absences of a parental figure while students transition to college, also contributes to the misuse of the free will and college students tend to fall into debauchery. It is equally important to understand that peer drinking is a commonly used term to describe how and with whom a college student drinks immeasurably. In contrast, a college student could be drinking to satisfy a need such as acceptance, or to be helped him or herself go through an emotional feeling issue such as low-esteem or depression. To say the least, binge drinking might not only affect college students’ grades or harm their health, but also it might be a response to the disadvantaged college success itself, or a wakeup call to parents to pay more attention to their young adults’ behaviors. Consequently, due to excessive alcohol consumption, the result in most of the cases will be disreputable academic performance such as low grade point average or poor performance in scholarly activities. Not only that, but also college students’ health will be hindered. Finally, it seems that the most socially alarming consequence to the alcohol-drinking problem is the decrease in college students’ grades. However, in addition to the college student’s grades, health should go hand in hand with college students' grades as college grades can be increased, but a life can never be replaced with any letter