<p>Starts off a bit slow, but stay with it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avYUL1A-WUM%5B/url%5D">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avYUL1A-WUM</a></p>
<p>Personally I think this vid is great, shows a sense of campus community. I don't drink, but I like that the students can make fun of themselves. I also like Keggy the Keg. :)</p>
<p>wow 100+ views and no comments, thought prospective Darts would be more vocal. Was also expecting an appalled parent or two. O well.</p>
<p>Haha. I commented on the video itself. It's awesome - I can't wait for next year.</p>
<p>hahaha that's so good</p>
<p>Pathetic. Really pathetic. Is that the reputation you want Dartmouth to persist in having?</p>
<p>If you guys want to prevent Dartmouth from becomingthe "D" added to HPYS - keep promoting this assinine crap. It probably affects starting salaries and who gets recruited.</p>
<p>Thank you for your informed post. As the authority on all matters pertaining to college, and certainly the EXTREMELY important issue of "Does my college fit some random guy on the internet's completely clueless idea of what goes on at elite colleges?" your feedback is appreciated.</p>
<p>I don't even party that much (and by not that much, I mean I drink very little and rarely), and I thought it was funny. I like that they have a sense of humor about themselves, as opposed to acting sanctimonious and condescending. ;)</p>
<p>Clearly your opinion doesn't count. Galwain knows better. Come on, guys, Galwain's gonna keep us out of HYPS! I've been losing sleep for three years worrying about that!</p>
<p>Galwain, if you want Dartmouth to be HYPS, go to HYPS, or at the very least their boards. Everyone knows this was in good fun, and considering the success of Dartmouth grads I would highly doubt that all their partying made them into the pathetic humans you seem to be picturing them as.</p>
<p>Or he may also like Bob Jones...yes, I know, I am a liberal hypocrite (thought I would save someone 3 seconds of typing)</p>
<p>At least we don't need a fun czar...</p>
<p>Extremely hillarious!
Dartmouth's definitely a fun school!</p>
<p>This was hilarious!</p>
<p>You do realize that the sorts of people who apply to Dartmouth/Brown/(reed?) aren't the sorts who typically are into the HYPS thing, right?</p>
<p>Hahaa BJU! (gosh even their acronym is joke-worthy)</p>
<p>Crap, I just got a call from Jeff Immelt. He said he saw it and he wasn't amused, and so from now on starting salaries for Dartmouth students who go to work for GE are going to be 50,000 dollars less than they were, and also Harvard and Yale students will now be promoted ahead of Dartmouth students.</p>
<p>I can't believe it Galwain, you were right! How did you KNOW?!?!?!</p>
<p>Wow... for the person who used sanctimonious...do you know what that means?</p>
<p>D for Drinking</p>
<p>Perhaps "self-righteous" would have been a better word choice, then, since "sanctimonious" implies hypocrisy. May I plead English as a third language?</p>
<p>Looks like you guys don't really want comments - just agreement w/ your way of thinking. </p>
<p>Drinking is an issue everywhere - and I will agree that Dartmouth sounds like it has fewer problems w/ extreme drunkeness versus most than many campuses.</p>
<p>However - in the spirit if debate, knowing that some of the best and brightest in the world attend Dartmouth- why not strive to do better? </p>
<p>(Taken from the College Drinking Changing the Culture Website:)</p>
<p>College Drinking Is a Culture
The tradition of drinking has developed into a kind of culture?beliefs and customs?entrenched in every level of college students' environments. Customs handed down through generations of college drinkers reinforce students' expectation that alcohol is a necessary ingredient for social success. These beliefs and the expectations they engender exert a powerful influence over students' behavior toward alcohol.</p>
<p>Customs that promote college drinking also are embedded in numerous levels of students' environments. The walls of college sports arenas carry advertisements from alcohol industry sponsors. Alumni carry on the alcohol tradition, perhaps less flamboyantly than during their college years, at sports events and alumni social functions. Communities permit establishments near campus to serve or sell alcohol, and these establishments depend on the college clientele for their financial success.</p>
<p>Students derive their expectations of alcohol from their environment and from each other, as they face the insecurity of establishing themselves in a new social milieu. Environmental and peer influences combine to create a culture of drinking. This culture actively promotes drinking, or passively promotes it, through tolerance, or even tacit approval, of college drinking as a rite of passage.</p>
<p>STATS FOR ALL US COLLEGES COMBINED:</p>
<p>A Snapshot of Annual High-Risk College Drinking Consequences
The consequences of excessive and underage drinking affect virtually all college campuses, college communities, and college students, whether they choose to drink or not.</p>
<p>Death: 1,700 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes (Hingson et al., 2005). </p>
<p>Injury: 599,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are unintentionally injured under the influence of alcohol (Hingson et al., 2005). </p>
<p>Assault: More than 696,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking (Hingson et al., 2005). </p>
<p>Sexual Abuse: More than 97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape (Hingson et al., 2005). </p>
<p>Unsafe Sex: 400,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 had unprotected sex and more than 100,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 report having been too intoxicated to know if they consented to having sex (Hingson et al., 2002). </p>
<p>Academic Problems: About 25 percent of college students report academic consequences of their drinking including missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall (Engs et al., 1996; Presley et al., 1996a, 1996b; Wechsler et al., 2002). </p>
<p>Health Problems/Suicide Attempts: More than 150,000 students develop an alcohol-related health problem (Hingson et al., 2002) and between 1.2 and 1.5 percent of students indicate that they tried to commit suicide within the past year due to drinking or drug use (Presley et al., 1998). </p>
<p>Drunk Driving: 2.1 million students between the ages of 18 and 24 drove under the influence of alcohol last year (Hingson et al., 2002). </p>
<p>Vandalism: About 11 percent of college student drinkers report that they have damaged property while under the influence of alcohol (Wechsler et al., 2002). </p>
<p>Property Damage: More than 25 percent of administrators from schools with relatively low drinking levels and over 50 percent from schools with high drinking levels say their campuses have a "moderate" or "major" problem with alcohol-related property damage (Wechsler et al., 1995). </p>
<p>Police Involvement: About 5 percent of 4-year college students are involved with the police or campus security as a result of their drinking (Wechsler et al., 2002) and an estimated 110,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are arrested for an alcohol-related violation such as public drunkenness or driving under the influence (Hingson et al., 2002). </p>
<p>Alcohol Abuse and Dependence: 31 percent of college students met criteria for a diagnosis of alcohol abuse and 6 percent for a diagnosis of alcohol dependence in the past 12 months, according to questionnaire-based self-reports about their drinking (Knight et al., 2002).</p>
<p>Let me also add - my feelings on this subject are strong because my best friend was in a car accident w/ her father last year. A drunk driver at 1:00 in the afternoon on a sunny day with a history of previous DUI's - killed him and left her pinned in the car. A year later, she is still suffering from the aftermath. This was a random act that could happen to anyone.</p>
<p>I think Dartmouth is an outstanding school. I am proud to become a student there. next year My eyes have been opened from the posts I have read that campus drinking is not nearly as bad as my prior perception and their are a large number of students who chose not to drink. Overall, it seems like a healthy atmosphere. </p>
<p>However -that said, the video is, in my opinion, pathetic.</p>
<p>i appreciate why this is a serious issue to you. it certainly is a serious issue for me(i'm muslim). but the videos clearly just meant to be funny; it doesnt promote drinking, nor would any major recruiter think any less of dartmouth students for making a video mocking a prevalent stereotype? if anything people (like me) would look at the video and go 'haha hilarious! I'd love to go there' heck, my dads one of the most religious people i know (not fanatic, the normal kind) and he burst out laughing when he saw this :-)))) its just good fun. If someone reads too much into it, then he/she has issues of his own</p>