PARTY PARTY

After listening to the Radio broadcast on Penn State being the number one party school, I have many opinions on the piece. First, I am going to analyze the investigative report. The reporter does do a very nice job of identifying the problem and makes it listenable to many audiences across the country. They give many reasons including: The death some students the had previously gone to school and drank too much in one night. Also, they do a very good of interviewing on duty police officers to tell their own experiences and how it easy it is to cite kids for underage drinking and public urination. They give good data like the number of citations in a weekend, so it should make kids more aware how easy it is to be arrested and how kids should be smarter if they are going to drink. The radio broadcast is very straight forward and clear, but it does give details on how this affects different groups. One example that they use is how mostly boys will get drunk and break into a house and fall asleep there. Also, how flirtation increases at frat parties with the presence of alcohol. I have to give them credit for doing good investigative work, but I am not overly thrilled with it.

This piece gets quotes from many students and even quotes President Spanier on the issue of binge drinking. Also, many officers were quoted as I already mentioned. This is good, because there a perspective from almost every angle, so they at least tried to not make the report one sided. The main conclusion is really not to binge drink and they give the example of Jeff Dato, and how he was alone. The main idea behind that was that if he was with other people, he might have never jumped off the building and died. It was a strong conclusion that made me think.

In my opinion, I thought this piece was complete bull shit. They made it seem like that Penn State is a horrible place to live if you have family. They pretty much said that all students do hear is drink. They never mentioned one thing on how high this University ranks in certain categories for academics. They could have said even though it is the number one party school, it still ranks high in several academic categories, but no all they say is PARTY PARTY PARTY! I would like to have a little talk to the person who made all these interviews and made this broadcast. One quote i thought would have been good is from a professor or two. I would be very curios to hear their take on the issue, and I think that would make the report even stronger and more appealing. I would have like to hear more of the students too, but not when they are drunk. The person interviewing should have talked to students during the week to see what they thought on the issue.