Did you know that there are more than 1,200 student clubs and organizations in an average American university? For instance Ohio State University also has more than 1,200 student clubs, many are used as a medium to find a career path or new student groups. As author Kenneth Bruffeet writes in Binge Drinking as a Substitute for “community of learning, binge drinking apparently correlates to a bad learning atmosphere. Bruffeet continues to write about how the leading factor of binge drinking is the social environments of Greek housing systems. Although Greek housing systems do provide a sense of belonging, there are multiple alternatives that universities have created, in order to make students feel a part of something bigger without the risky behavior of binge drinking.
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In other words Bruffeet is describing a small percentage of students that quite possibly are exposed to a binge drinking environments. Bruffeet continues to critiques the whole Greek housing system for invoking a type of environment where drinking is offered. Bruffeet fails to consider the other 1000 organizations that can both demonstrate a sense of belonging and encouraging learning communities. For instance when Bruffeet said “Fraternity members were the only people on the campus who seemed to know what it felt like to be a rube.” (Bruffeet. 343) In this quote Bruffeet uses a personal experiences to justify his argument, but it doesn’t connect his own personal loneliness to why college aged students drink or why it connects to fraternities. The author contradicts his main argument by saying Greek housing was the only place that made him feel like he belonged, then demonstrating that they invoke bad environments for
In other words Bruffeet is describing a small percentage of students that quite possibly are exposed to a binge drinking environments. Bruffeet continues to critiques the whole Greek housing system for invoking a type of environment where drinking is offered. Bruffeet fails to consider the other 1000 organizations that can both demonstrate a sense of belonging and encouraging learning communities. For instance when Bruffeet said “Fraternity members were the only people on the campus who seemed to know what it felt like to be a rube.” (Bruffeet. 343) In this quote Bruffeet uses a personal experiences to justify his argument, but it doesn’t connect his own personal loneliness to why college aged students drink or why it connects to fraternities. The author contradicts his main argument by saying Greek housing was the only place that made him feel like he belonged, then demonstrating that they invoke bad environments for