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Sustained dialogue students combat binge drinking

The new open container law allows more leniency for those wishing to drink alcohol at the event. (Emily Morris / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR)
The new open container law allows more leniency for those wishing to drink alcohol at the event. (Emily Morris / ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR)

Virginia Koch, Sustained Dialogue professor, had her class give a presentations on how to properly combat the college drinking culture in the place of the course's final exam.

Kayla Norwood, senior in early childhood education, said the course focuses on various different steps.

“Sustained Dialogue is a five-step process that starts with getting a group of people together to meet weekly," Norwood said. "The second step is about sharing your own personal experiences."

The final steps pertain to problem-solving, Norwood said.

"The third step is looking at any problems that you’ve seen, and kind of thinking why those problems are the way they are," Norwood said. "The fourth step is trying to think of how you can maybe fix or solve those problems, and the last step is putting them into action and then doing something about it.”

Norwood said the drinking culture topic developed throughout the semester.

“Throughout the course of the semester we ended up talking about the drinking culture on campus and just different problems we saw with that," Norwood said.

Koch said students would also be assessed by writing a paper to be turned in after the presentation.

“They do have one final reflection paper that’s due, just kind of reflecting on the entire class and the experience, so I gave them some different prompts and things to address,” Koch said. “One of the things we did as a midterm was also a reflection, and I could really tell that they were listening to each other and that they were being changed by this experience.” 


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