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Students survey drinking habits
Chase Becicka
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: News
Shelves littered with alcohol, keggers every weekend and drinking games that often result in actions of regret are the norms that students often encounter when modern media depicts the social life of traditional college students.
However, a lifestyle dripping in alcohol abuse and unawareness can lead students down a troubled road with problems ranging from addiction to legal issues due to either underage drinking or driving while intoxicated.
Student Life offered students at Kirkwood Community College a chance to see for themselves just exactly how effected they are by their drinking habits on April 10 in Iowa Hall. Students were given a chance to receive an alcohol screening survey for National Alcohol Screening Day. The event is just one of many that Kirkwood will be hosting to help students understand the potential dangers that can accompany alcohol abuse during April which is National Alcohol Abuse Awareness month.
The alcohol screening took place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and was completely anonymous so students who have a problem or believed they might could go into the screening with an open mind. At the screening Student Life had informational videos playing in both the waiting area and the room where students took the survey. The informational videos were dated news casts and they helped students put faces to alcohol related deaths.
The survey that Kirkwood students took had questions detailing immediate family and drinking habits over the last year. For example, one survey question stated "How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you started?" Students were treated to free cookies and soda while a counselor scored their tests. After the survey was scored students then met with a counselor to discuss their results.
One Kirkwood student commented that the survey helped him to reaffirm that he had a problem that needed to be addressed. Another student, Jacob Stark, computer programming major, said, "It was pretty good. I think they could have done better by having a meeting about the effects on drinking."
"This is a great opportunity for Kirkwood students to find out their risks associated with alcohol," said Ashley Crider, prevention specialist.
Kirkwood will have the drunk driving simulator on campus April 23 outside Iowa Hall from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. as it continues to help students become aware of potential dangers of alcohol abuse.
However, a lifestyle dripping in alcohol abuse and unawareness can lead students down a troubled road with problems ranging from addiction to legal issues due to either underage drinking or driving while intoxicated.
Student Life offered students at Kirkwood Community College a chance to see for themselves just exactly how effected they are by their drinking habits on April 10 in Iowa Hall. Students were given a chance to receive an alcohol screening survey for National Alcohol Screening Day. The event is just one of many that Kirkwood will be hosting to help students understand the potential dangers that can accompany alcohol abuse during April which is National Alcohol Abuse Awareness month.
The alcohol screening took place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and was completely anonymous so students who have a problem or believed they might could go into the screening with an open mind. At the screening Student Life had informational videos playing in both the waiting area and the room where students took the survey. The informational videos were dated news casts and they helped students put faces to alcohol related deaths.
The survey that Kirkwood students took had questions detailing immediate family and drinking habits over the last year. For example, one survey question stated "How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you started?" Students were treated to free cookies and soda while a counselor scored their tests. After the survey was scored students then met with a counselor to discuss their results.
One Kirkwood student commented that the survey helped him to reaffirm that he had a problem that needed to be addressed. Another student, Jacob Stark, computer programming major, said, "It was pretty good. I think they could have done better by having a meeting about the effects on drinking."
"This is a great opportunity for Kirkwood students to find out their risks associated with alcohol," said Ashley Crider, prevention specialist.
Kirkwood will have the drunk driving simulator on campus April 23 outside Iowa Hall from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. as it continues to help students become aware of potential dangers of alcohol abuse.
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