Copyright©1999
The Hanover Review, Inc.
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 Editorial:
Face Down Drunk, Phi Beta Kappa
Purging
the Bingeing Standard
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
 The often dopey programs that
colleges and universities across the country have adopted
in the last decade in order to stop students from
drinking have stemmed from nothing so much as a series of
books and articles produced by one man, Henry Wechsler of
Harvard's School of Public Health. As a result of
Wechsler's College Alcohol Studies, college
administrators around the country are quite concerned
about “binge-drinking” on their campuses, and
so this decade has seen a broad variety of programs aimed
at reducing the amount of liquor students drink. Now,
however, one study says that perhaps college students
don't drink quite as much as Dr. Wechsler would have us
believe.
Social
Norms: Peer Pressure Redux
by Andrew Grossman
Like many college
administrators, Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania
State University, believes that drinking is an epidemic
today on too many colleges campuses. Dartmouth College
has also battled this problem in recent years;
fraternities, the epicenter of the common source, may be
the next casualty in the college's war against drink.
Many have argued that the biggest problem with alcohol is
perception, that too many people associate particular
colleges and college in general with drinking. Spanier,
however, tried elevating the battle purely into the realm
of the metaphysical: student perceptions. Under Spanier's
lead, 113 colleges have joined together to sponsor a
massive nationwide advertising campaign, supposedly
altering the “social norms” of students.
Letters
to the Editor
Dartmouth's
Extortion Racket by
Adam Lusthaus
The
McFate Suite Six: Anti-Greek Plotting by Steven Menashi
Cheerleading:
An Autopsy by Benjamin Oren
The
Town Meetings: A Rundown by Robert Allgyer and
Nilanjan Banerjee
Bradley
and Gore Go to Town by Jeffrey Hart
by Gordon Haff
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“Far better it is to dare mighty
things, to win great triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to rank with those
poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much, because they live in the gray twilight that
knows neither victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore
Roosevelt
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