Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard

by Thomas Vander Ven and Ven Vander Thomas

Book Overview

A unique answer to the perennial question--why do college students drink so much?

Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814788327
• ISBN13: 9780814788325
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"