Liquid Bonding: A Cultural Analysis of the Role of Alcohol in Fraternity Pledgeship
Qualitative methods were used to discover how the pledgeship experience shapes alcohol use of fraternity members. Regulating alcohol use is a key element in a complicated system of rewards and sanctions administered by active members designed to socialize newcomers to group norms and values.
Alcohol, Hazing, and Fraternities As Addictive Organizations
During the period of time that I was doing my doctoral research, they called me "the alcohol man." "They" were the pledges, members, and friends, of a fraternity on a large public university campus in the Midwest. Starting in 1991, and continuing until 1995, I interviewed high-school-age recruits, pledges, and active members, of the group I called Iota Nu Sigma (INS, a pseudonym) about their use of alcohol.
The IDs Are Fake But The Problem Isn't
The subject of underage drinking invariably brings a personal, often-nostalgic response from older adults.
Many parents of teenagers remember their own days of drinking alcohol before they were of legal age
Expand Alcohol Server Training
Connecticut’s Dram Shop Act says that any establishment that sells an alcoholic beverage to an intoxicated person is legally responsible if the drunk then injures someone else or destroys their property
Liquor Liability and Subrogation: An alternate recovery source
The vast majority of automobile subrogation claims focus on other drivers. As there is no recovery against the first party (the insured), claims are invariably made against other drivers in the hope of finding an insurance policy
Law Enforcement and Society Can Benefit from Greater Transparency in Controlled Drug Analyses
In this article, concerns are presented from the perspective of a former Drug Enforcement Administration chemist and a practicing forensic chemist consultant about the shortcomings that law enforcement and society now face with the lack of transparency in the government analyses of controlled drugs
