NOTE: To ensure we're talking about the same thing, by "blitzed" I mean the kind of drunkenness that occurs when one engages in binge drinking.
A paper to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) -- if you're in Denver, it's at 2:30pm MDT -- researchers have found that college students who engage in binge drinking are happier than students who don't engage in binge drinking. *Animal House Mode on* Well, duh! *Animal House Mode off* In keeping with the practices of other professional organization, such as our APA, the ASA had "embargoed" the study until this morning when it made available the press release available at this website: http://www.asanet.org/documents/press/pdfs/AM_2012_Carolyn_Hsu_News_Release.pdf Needless to say, the popular media was quick to pick up on this story and you can see how they handle it here: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2012/08/20/health-buzz-college-binge-drinkers-report-being-happier And here: http://scienceblog.com/56149/binge-drinking-college-students-are-happier-than-their-non-binge-drinking-peers/ And here: http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/08/20/binge-drinking-makes-students-happy And here, on the LiveScience website: http://www.livescience.com/22512-college-binge-drinkers-happier.html Which also has embedded links to the following article on how female condom use drops during the first year of college: http://www.livescience.com/18712-women-condom.html NOTE: The research presented here was not presented at the ASA convention but maybe LiveScience connected to it because it was about sex and college. If they had a connected article on rock n' roll, then I could use the subject line: Sex and Drugs and Rock n' Roll. (Any Ian Drury fans out there?) Just a heads up for the obvious questions that returning students will have such as "Yo prof, I heard that binge drinking is good for college students! Can I bring a six-pack to class?" -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=19890 or send a blank email to leave-19890-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
