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Binge: What Your College Student Won't Tell You

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Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess

In Binge, Barrett Seaman reveals what every parent, student, and educator needs to know about the college experience. Seaman spent time with students at twelve highly regarded and diverse colleges and universities across North America. During his two years of research, he immersed himself in the lives of the students, often living in their dorms, dining with them, speaking with them on their own terms, and listening to them express their thoughts and feelings.

Portraying a campus culture in which today’s best and brightest students grapple with far more than academic challenges, Binge conveys the unprecedented stresses on campus today. While sharing revealing interviews and the often dramatic stories, Seaman explores the complexities of romantic relationships and sexual relations, alcohol and drug use, anxiety and depression, class and racial boundaries, and more. Despite the disturbing trends, Seaman finds reasons for optimism and offers provocative and well-informed suggestions for improving the undergraduate experience.

Sometimes alarming, always fascinating, and ultimately hopeful, Binge is an extraordinary investigative work that reveals the realities of higher education today.

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Book details

Author
Barrett Seaman
Imprint
Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Pages
324
Formats
Paperback, Hardcover
Subjects
Self-Help › Substance Abuse & Addictions › Alcohol
ISBN-13
9780470049181 (Paperback)9781620455654 (Hardcover)

About the author

BARRETT SEAMAN is a journalist and author who spent more than two years living among students at twelve colleges and universities across North America to write Binge: What Your College Student Won't Tell You. He is also the co-author of Going for Broke: The Chrysler Story, written with Michael Moritz.

Seaman served as a correspondent, White House correspondent, and editor at Time magazine, holding roles including senior editor and special projects editor. He holds a degree from Hamilton College, class of 1967, and has served as a charter trustee of the college in Clinton, New York.

When he’s not writing, Seaman serves as a founding director and former president of Choose Responsibility, a nonprofit focused on drinking age reform, and has written and edited for The Hudson Independent. His work on Binge grew directly from that engagement with campus culture.

Format: Paperback