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...million study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice to tease out the connection between the two variables. They found that video games do not affect all children equally and that the effect on behavior is not solely dependent on violence, gore, or sex. Olson said that gaming??including playing “M”-rated games—is such a widespread teenage phenomenon that it should not be considered abnormal. “A moderate amount of violent game play is unlikely to hurt you,” Olson said. “You just...
...referral to resources,” he said. He also described the problems created by recent trends in college-age drinking. Students now drink to get drunk more than they did 10 or 15 years ago, he said, which leads to practices such as “pre-gaming?? or drinking before going to a party. “Two to four students get together in someone’s room, they usually use hard alcohol, there’s often some sort of drinking game involved,” Trujillo said. “It?...
...space is too small and doesn’t get a lot of use.Perhaps that’s because gamers for the most part no longer want to lock themselves in alone with their Xboxes. If events like the Smash Open and massive Halo parties continue to bolster gaming??s profile, cartoon combat and futuristic gunfire may join instant messenger’s chirp as sounds of perfectly acceptable-but virtual-social interaction.—Staff writer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu...
...There is very good suspicion that heavy ‘pre-gaming?? was involved in this incident,” the co-chairs—David S. Jewett ’08, Haibu Lo ’08, and Brad D. Oglevee ’08—wrote in an e-mail...
...alcohol. The College should also help HoCos and other organizations (from Harvard and Yale) obtain the requisite licenses, in order to promote a vibrant, communal tailgate environment in which students will self-regulate their own drinking. If students eschew boring and keg-less tailgates in favor of pre-gaming??drinking massive quantities of alcohol to achieve a 4-quarter-long buzz—University Health Services will have a banner day. The College must take a pragmatic stand towards student drinking in Allston, if only to counterbalance the misguidedness of the puritanical Boston Police. For, as much...