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Among teenagers, boys who abuse alcohol become rowdy and randy, but studies show girls are more likely to become depressed. They also become susceptible to sexual assault and sexually transmitted diseases. Perhaps most troubling, evidence is mounting that girls who begin drinking in their early teens have a greater chance than boys do of eventually becoming alcoholics. "Girls have a whole constellation of medical problems surrounding alcohol," says Dr. Duncan Clark of the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center. "We would anticipate that rates of alcohol abuse will ultimately equalize between men and women. That's a perverse kind of equality...
...campuses, an increasing number of women reported abstaining from alcohol altogether. Critics claim that although it may seem that women are suffering more alcohol-related problems, the number of reports may be rising because researchers, who for years did not ask about unplanned pregnancies or sexual assault, are finally posing relevant questions. And then there's the theory that today's young women simply feel more comfortable raising their hands and admitting they drink...
Then there is the obvious danger of disease. A study of high school alcohol-dependent students published this month by the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center found that 1 in 5 girls was infected with the herpes virus. Drunken women also suffer disproportionately from rape and sexual assault. "[Women] walking back to campus intoxicated wear a neon sign on their back: Mug me. Victimize me," says Georgetown's Kilcarr. Packaged like that, the antidrinking message has some bite. But for much of the past decade, many colleges have aimed their prevention campaigns exclusively at men. One favorite strategy has been...
Violent crime Since 1991 the number of women arrested for aggravated assault has increased a staggering 46%, to 53,088 in 2000. The number of men arrested decreased...
...Septembers ago, Social Studies 10 was introduced as, among other things, an all-out assault on Christianity and nine months later it had proven itself to be just that. Though academia may demand skepticism, we are misguided when we impose our principles on other disciplines and suggest that those who believe in anything with the rigid confidence of a tightly folded flag or a crisp salute just have not thought about it hard enough...