By Patricia Franklin and Angelica Cheyenne
Staff Writers
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Spring Break for college students is supposed to be the most epic week of their lives. Most college students travel back home, relax or go on a mini-vacation, vowing that “what happens on Spring Break stays in Spring Break.” Spring Break is infamously known for booze, bongs and babes.
Many college students are away from home for the first time and the freedom of independence can become enticing. According to The Quinnipiac Chronicles website, 9 percent of men and 2 percent of women agree with friends to have sex with someone over spring break. It is called ‘sexpectations’.
“I remember my first spring break in college,” B.L. said. “It was my first time ever being away from home and my parents were very strict. I had joined what I like to call a ‘mean girls’ club. We would do just about anything together. We all made a $20 bet for whoever would sleep with the most popular guy in school. Five shots later and a hazy night I woke up with a guy next to me and $20 in my bra.”
It is not uncommon for college students to want to venture out of their comfort zones and experience life. Some experiences include orgies, threesomes and indulgence in drugs.
According to the Ranch of Dove Tree website, half of full-time students (3.8 million) binge drink, abuse prescriptions drugs and/or illicit drugs. There are roughly one in four of the nation’s college students (1.8 million) that meet the criteria for substance abuse and 8.5 percent who meet the criteria in the entire population.
“As a man in college I always fell into peer pressure,” J.M. said. “I played football in college and was around a lot of people and things that I should have steered away from. It was my last spring break in college and I wanted to live it up. One of my buddies was the ‘pill man’, he gave me this green pill and when I first took it I felt fine. The next day I woke up to a cop handcuffing me and my pants and shirt were missing.”
It isn’t uncommon for students to get arrested during spring break or to fall into the peer pressures of wanting to be accepted.
“I have always been the goodie-two-shoes, picture perfect type girl with a boyfriend,” L.C. said. “Spring break came around and I completely broke out of my shell. I met this handsome guy from Chicago and he kept eyeing me from across the room. I was in a monogamous relationship at the time but the Henny had its way with me. The guy came over grabbed my hand and before I knew it, we were having sex on the elevator. Let’s just say after this spring break I ended up single.”
