NOTES FROM THE DRY CAMPUS

Video essays written and produced by a group of resourceful nonfiction writing students at the University of Iowa. They all set out to reveal the unseen (or reinterpret the seen) using not only text, but images and sound. In ways both funny and distressing, they examine the drinking culture that surrounds them. For further information about the UI nonfiction course “Writing for the Documentary” contact John Bresland: jbresland [at] yahoo.com.

REDEMPTION CENTER
Dave Long & Peter Madsen

Two university students carry out the essential errand.

CHEERS TO COLLEGE
Melanie Kaminski, Karrie Kalemba & Cassie Ruppert

How to stay on the dean’s list at one of the nation’s elite party schools.

DRINKING AND YOU
Nicholas Tomlonovic

Alcohol is forbidden on campus. Policy, however, does not dictate practice.

CLEAN SWEEP
Maggie Schmidt

In the quiet interval between the bar crawls and hangovers, David Corso is getting up for work.

UNCE UNCE UNCE
Maggie Whitlock & Lindsay Wooldridge

Lose your job? Your girlfriend? Have you considered going out and making a new reality?

BEER PONG
Tom Klein & Brandon Wilson

Follow two students on their quest to dethrone the reigning beer pong champs.

POWER HOUR
Emily Burney & Jennifer Fravel

Twelve students embark on a journey to drink sixty shots of beer in sixty minutes.

ALCOHOL ON THE BRAIN
Precious Mueller

Dr. Nicholas Pantazis on the effects of binge drinking.

APPROPRIATE SAFETY ACTIONS
Josh Eklow

Filmmaker Josh Eklow documents his strange journey down tornado alley.