Students’ Social Life: A Study by Dartmouth Anthropology Professor

<p>"Students’ discussions of drinking in dorms, sports groups, performance groups, affinity groups, pledge groups demonstrate that the issue of ritual heavy drinking is not simply one of fraternities and sororities, though these may be epicenters. Dormitories for example, including ones, which are “substance-free”, have room and hall parties (“pre-gaming”) on a regular basis, which are not dissimilar in function from those held in the Greek houses. Ritual drinking occasions often entail flouting of normal societal etiquette by routinely combining drinking, whether heavy or not, with highly scripted acts of nudity, profanity, clowning, despoiling the environment, as well as blackouts, speech slurring, public vomiting & urination. Alcohol is a sacrament in the black (carnival) mass. Take away the liquor and out goes the carnival."</p>

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<p>guilty of all of the above.</p>