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...think that vulnerable young fans may have emulated your drug and alcohol saturated lifestyle? -Patti Powell, Murfreesboro, Tenn.I would think that I put them off going down the wrong road. Sure, you can have some good times and experiment, but I think most people - once they try it - decide [drugs and alcohol] are not for them...
MySpace and Facebook have become addictions in our society. Similar to people who are dependent on drugs or alcohol, social networking junkies count the minutes to their next profile fix, checking their computers multiple times per day to see how many shout-outs, virtual drinks or new friends they've acquired. But recent data has indicated a slowing in growth for MySpace while Facebook has continued to accelerate. Is a new king on the horizon for the social networking space? Or can two very different social networks co-exist...
...demise, the UC party grants have become a natural (if not exaggerated) symbol for the vitality of campus social life. But there are other issues at play: the termination of the program is just one decision among several recent developments in the College administration’s policy toward alcohol that might presage a return to less open and more draconian methods of enforcement...
...Talks have been ongoing between the Office of the Dean and official and unofficial student groups. The negotiations, which focus on the broader use of alcohol, center around recommendations made by the Committee on Social Clubs in April 2007. The College might be attempting to reel student groups—especially the more autonomous organizations that own property off of Harvard’s campus—more closely into the established guidelines of the College...
...When we discuss what keeps us up at night,” says David S. Rosenthal ’59, director of the University Health Services (UHS), “there are two basic issues...one is an alcohol-related death and the other is suicide.” Rosenthal notes that UHS began collecting data in earnest on alcohol-related issues as early as 1989. Since that time, UHS has noted a steady escalation of both acute alcohol-related cases and an overall escalation of admissions to UHS for alcohol-related issues...