Eliminate the Pre-Game College students are drinking more than ever, they are drinking before they go to social events, in smaller social events, known as the pre-game. The pre-game is where a group of friends tries to drink as much as they can before they go to the game or the party, and sometimes students aren’t even able to make it to the party because they drink too much at the pre-game.
Consuming a large amount of alcohol in a short amount of time has been a common occurrence in young college students across the nation. They are brought into a culture of drinking, studying, and partying, and it’s a very dangerous combination. Colleges have tried to crack down on the burning factor, by increasing law enforcement among campuses, or forcing students to attend seminars and take a test that pledges they won’t binge drink. In hopes to limit the
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Saltz, a senior research scientist at the Prevention Research Center, part of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. He is saying that colleges aren’t reaching out to solve the binge drinking problem, as long as it looks like they are making an effort, nobody will uproar. Even at colleges that try to confront these issues comprehensively, turnover and limited budgets pose significant obstacles. When administrations change, so do priorities. It all resets when someone leaves the office, and when someone comes in. It’s a spiral that never stops spinning, as the problem at hand keeps being passed down from generation to generation with no sign of fixing it. The budgets in colleges don’t normally account for binge drinking because the administration is more focused on getting kids to attend their college, all money goes to marketing, or teacher salaries,