Ohio University professor Thomas Vander Ven has observed his share of student drinking in the college town of Athens, Ohio. He tells NPR's Neal Conan that there's plenty of anti-student sentiment among the local residents; the prevailing attitude is that college kids are drunken fools who vomit in the streets and have risky, casual sex.
But why, he asks, have so many young people come to see college and drinking as synonymous?
But why, he asks, have so many young people come to see college and drinking as synonymous?