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OBJECTIVE The potential effectiveness of two group-administered social-skills training interventions for reducing high-risk drinking behavior was evaluated through a prospective randomized intervention trial with 3,406 members of a national college fraternity. METHOD Ninety eight of 99 chapters of a national fraternity were randomly assigned, within three strata, to receive (1) a 3-hour basel...

Objective: This meta-analysis examines the efficacy of interventions to reduce alcohol consumption and related problems among college student members of Greek letter organizations. Method: Studies were identified through electronic bibliographic database searches and reviews of reference sections of relevant articles, and studies were included if the study evaluated (a) an individual-level alco...

BACKGROUND Underage alcohol use is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in adolescents and young adults. This study examined drinking levels and ensuing problems among college students and factors associated with binge drinking. METHOD The Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study conducted a self-administered survey. The participants include a random sample of 7061 stud...

By ERIC HUNSLEY News Editor ' · : '\ftth6ut ~mg or preparation, fraternity and society . presidents were given a five-keg restriction on beer at all ;¥ties at. a closed meeting of all ~ternity and socie_~ p(fi.idents last Wednesday. The meeting;_.called o/ asslB· tiu1t vice president. for student services Bnan Austm, dean of students· Mark Reece and associate dean of students for student develo...

The variation patterns of the variable (ING) in an American college fraternity are explained by analyzing individual men's contextualized discourse. While most of the fraternity men predictably use a lower rate of the `vernacular' variant in weekly meetings, several men use a higher rate. I argue that all of the men index alignment roles associated with power, but that these alignment roles are...

Following E. Goffman's (1967) face threat analysis of social interaction, it was hypothesized that the aggressive, playful content of teasing would vary according to social status and relational satisfaction, personality, role as teaser or target, and gender. These 4 hypotheses were tested in analyses of the teasing among fraternity members (Study 1) and romantic couples (Study 2). Consistent w...