4 Articles - Sara Houser

Dailey, Katie. "Report Shows Teen Girls Are Drinking More Than Boys, for Different Reasons." Newsweek. 29 July 2010: 1. Print.
In "Report Shows Teen Girls Are Drinkig More Than Boys, for Different Reasons," Dailey argues that teenagers have different reasons to drink than one another. She explains that teeange boys are drinking just to have a good time while teenage girls on the other hand, are drinking to relieve stress. Dailey argues the fact that why wouldn't teenagers be drinking due to stress, because many teens see their parents stressed about the economy and they wonder what is going to be there for them when they are ready to be out in the real world. The stress on teenagers is leading them to drink, because it is one of the only outlets. I think this article is not extremely relavent to my topic because I am more focusing on college students, but in a way this is how teenagers start drinking so it could give a strong argument for why teenagers and college students start drinking in the first place.

Friedman, Megan. "Should College Bars Use Breathalyzers?." Time Magazine. 29 July 2010: 187-196. Print.
The article "Should College Bars Use Breathalyzers?" argues the fact that it might be a good idea to put breathalyzers in cars to regulate safer drinking. Friedman thinks that this would be beneficial because it would promote safer drinking amongst college campuses. She also recognizes the other side that students might abuse a breathalyzer by just trying to make it a competition to see who would blow the highest BAC (blood alcohol content). This is the downfall to having breathalyzers outside of bars because this would not be the purpose if students abuse the correct purpose. I think that this article could be helpful within my arguement about college drinking because it shows a way that colleges are trying to make it safer for students.

Gibson, Megan. "Congratulations America—You're Drinking More Than Ever!." Time Magazine. 2 August 2010: 1. Print.
In the article "Congratulations America-You're Drinking More Than Ever!," Megan Gibson argues the fact that in the past 25 years, America has now reached its high of people who drink alcohol. She states that since 1985, the people who say they drink alcohol is about 67 percent. The study shows that people who are wealthier are the ones who are more likely to be the ones drinking alcohol and this might be because they are stressed about working so much and want to relax, or that they have the money to drink so they do. I do not think that this article will be much of a help to the research that I have been doing so far because it does not help me with the fact that college students are the ones drinking more, it is a study on everyone in America.

Friedman, Megan. "University of Georgia Tops Party-School List." Time Magazine. 3 August 2010: 1. Print.
In the article, "University of Georgia Tops Party-School List," Friedman argues that University of Georgia is now the top party school. This poll is based off the amount of hours that a student studies outside of the classroom, the amount of alcohol and drug use on campus, and finally, the popularity of greek life on campus. The administration has been trying to calm the party atmosphere since 2006 due to an alcohol related death. This shows that this school is participating in a lot of drinking in college. Friedman even mentions that the school has 100 bars located around the college. This does not help calm the party atmosphere on the campus. I think that this article could be somewhat useful, but it depends one which way I direct my next paper, because I was going to narrow it down on just Washington State University.