Word: alcoholizing
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First of all, the online course’s useless information and unenlightening case studies are unlikely to save us from death by the bottle. It should be removed from freshman’s list of requirements, which already contains a far better organized and more useful alcohol education program: the Freshman Residential Education (FRED) lectures...
...Harvard is currently looking to decrease cases of student overindulgence—the College’s Committee on Social Clubs recently recommended that Harvard introduce student group responsibility for dangerous drunkenness. But this is a misguided approach if the College does not both address the faults of its alcohol education system and build on its strengths, such as the FRED...
...understand that having freshmen debriefed on the dangers of drinking before they arrive on campus must seem appealing. Yet I can’t imagine the administration really wants to impose this kind of frustration. Far from educating us naïve first-years on the perils of alcohol, it merely annoys the hell out of us. It was not uncommon for Alcohol Edu to time out several times in one section (approximately 15 minutes work), as happened to me on several occasions...
...test out” option on the Alcohol Edu mother site has also never worked for anyone to my knowledge, which forces informed students to laboriously relearn what we were taught during high school health class. This technical Titanic is then followed by something even worse: the case studies...
...Alcohol Edu’s case studies are, to put it bluntly, stupid and insulting. Their use of stock stereotypes is repulsive. The blond semi-anorexic sorority girl? The black athletics recruit? Please. Spare me. Do I care that some imaginary red-haired girl is worried that after a drunken one-night stand with a sketchy upperclassman, she might have an infection in her nether regions? Watch out, kids—especially if you’re female! Drunken sex with strangers is bad and will give you nasty diseases...