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BROWN MAY CONVERT some single-sex bathrooms to gender-neutral bathrooms after student requests, the Herald reports. The Columbia Spectator has a college-focused take on the Internet poker ban currently making its way through Congress. And the DP asks the new freshman class president why he uses his middle name, not what he plans to do in office...
That leaves the job of teaching kids how to be smart about gambling to parents. "We know that poker comes along with a lot of bad habits, but so do a lot of other things," says Cindi Williams, whose son Jeff, 20, began playing poker in high school by holding regular games around the pool table in the family basement in Atlanta. Her strategy, she says, was to talk to Jeff about the risks and always make him play with his own money so that he stayed within a budget. Under those rules, she says, Jeff and his friends developed...
Then, of course, there's the money. Like a growing number of poker-playing kids, Jeff got heavily involved in Internet gambling when he went to college. Online poker, with the potential to play many tables at once and the possibility of quickly losing your entire year's tuition in a torrent of bad-luck bits and bytes, can cut both ways. It provides the same emphasis on logic and calculation but lacks the social controls of face-to-face games with friends. It can swallow players up, as in the infamous case of the Lehigh University student who robbed...
...leaves high school. But there's no manic intensity to their game. Rather, the boys have a laidback camaraderie, cracking jokes about who's the best liar and paying as much attention to one another as they do to the cards. That camaraderie takes a break when the poker game does and the boys turn to playing video games. Renee made chili dogs for them to nosh on, but the food is all but ignored as the teens rush to the living room to feed what seems to be their true addiction: Guitar Hero on PlayStation 2 and Mario Superstar...
Many parents may not mind their kids playing poker, but even those moms and dads know that there are risks. The biggest of those, namely, is the risk of addiction. Ed Looney, executive director of the Council of Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, says that as a rule of thumb, 80% of kids who start gambling will just dabble in it with no further harm, 15% will have some signs of problem gambling (playing past their budget, lying about losses), and 5% will become truly addicted...