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Many nationwide surveys have stated that four out of every five college students on campuses around America are indulging themselves into consumption of alcohol. Heavy consumption of periodical drinking is occurring with half of these, four out of five, students. Many schools throughout the country have drinking clubs within the campus, which are like fraternities and/or sororities. All they do is get together and drink until they cannot consume any more alcohol. Many schools, such as Princeton, have made this a ritual, for hundreds of years. There is a very high influence into this gargantuan culture of drinking. So much, that it forms this immaculate social norm to be a part of this club; to drink until you cannot anymore. There are many short term and long term consequences in alcohol bingeing, including injuries, unsafe sex, alcohol abuse, arrests and violence and much more. More than 1400 deaths, 500,000 injuries, and 70,000 rapes and sexual assaults are reported annually. There have been surveys conducted in which ninety-percent of students believe that they, personally, are not comfortable with the excessive binge drinking, that occurs throughout the weekends. When they were asked what the other students thought, they answered that everyone loved it and was happy to pursue it. This cannot be possible, where almost everyone says that they are uncomfortable with it, but when asked how others would find it to be, everyone else enjoyed it. There is definitely a misperception of the actual social norm here. Misconception of this can also be found in very close friends. Slowly and slowly people’s beliefs follow in the path of what they thought at first was uncomfortable, but now is a social norm.
