ts, acknowledged drinking to the point of intoxication one or more times a week since entering college. These percentages of freshmen who are drinking heavily are often a concern to administrators.
Although the majority of students, in the survey by Leibsohn, increased their use of alcohol in their freshman transition period, they did not show any significant increase in the number of times they report being drunk (183). Approximately 8 percent of college freshmen, who did not report drinking alcohol in high school, reported its use in college (183). The majority (65 percent (Leibsohn, 1994, p. 185)) of these students can be classified as experimental users. They only used alcohol one-to-two times per month. Thirty-three percent of these high school nonusers of alcohol, who began to use in college, report drinking three to nine times the preceding month. Eighty-four percent of high school nonusers of alcohol who started to drink in college reported becoming drunk one or two times during the month (Leibsohn, 1994, p. 185).
The eight percent of students who began using alcohol in college are offset by three percent who stopped using alcohol when they entered college. Most (86 percent) of these students who abstained from alcohol use in college were light users in high school drinking only once or twice a month (Leibsohn, 1994, p. 185). Six percent of the students who quit drinking in college described themselves as getting drunk in high school. One-third of this six percent could be classified as heavy drinkers, and one-third admitted being drunk one or more times each week of their senior year (Leibsohn, 1994, 185).
Ninety percent of freshmen admit to drinking alcoholic beverages. Seventy percent of freshmen confess to getting drunk (Leibsohn, 1994, p. 187). Some students did not acknowledge being drunk, even though, they would admit to consuming 5 or more drinks in a three to five hour time span. It is interes...