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It’s a term some students are using to describe the fruity liquor drinks popular with women on campus. And the term conveys both the sexism and sex roles that are an important part of understanding the way students use and abuse... See more » It’s a term some students are using to describe the fruity liquor drinks popular with women on campus. And the term conveys both the sexism and sex roles that are an important part of understanding the way students use and abuse alcohol, according to experts from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, which is currently conducting an Education Department-funded study on how gender considerations can go into alcohol-education programs. The Wilmington team presented an overview of the project and some of the early results Tuesday in Indianapolis, at the annual meeting of ACPA: College Student Educators International. A few others in the audience said that their institutions were also retooling alcohol education to place more emphasis on gender, and several others expressed hope that the approach might make more headway than numerous failed attempts at their institutions to minimize binge drinking. Early results from the Wilmington study are finding that a gender-based approach to alcohol education has an impact (in what colleges would consider the right direction) on both the frequency of binge drinking and the average number of drinks per session. And in a particularly encouraging sign, the Wilmington researchers found that students who went through their programs were much less likely than other students to agree with statements like “I’m more fun when I’m drunk.” The research was presented by Rebecca Caldwell and Aimee Hourigan, who work in Wilmington’s Crossroads program to discourage alcohol abuse. They opened their presentation by engaging the audience — most of which consisted of student affairs officers who work on health, counseling, substance abuse or Greek affairs — in a discussion of what they knew about differences between the ways men and women drink in college. Citing both data and anecdotes, the audience saw similarities: Men and women who are drunk are more emotional, for instance, and more likely to engage in various risky behaviors. But the audience focused on differences, agreeing that these differences were well known and yet play little role in most campus programming on alcohol: See less »

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