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To: JohnM who wrote (131050)	8/10/2005 12:46:58 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793846

But my somewhat limited experience of dealing with 18 year old college first year students for almost thirty years including the last ten of which when I lived in a first year dorm three nights a week I had been meaning to ask you to expand on that experience here, if you would, John. Did you do through the "sexual revolution" when the dorms went coed and sex became part of the dorm scene.? Or was it over by then?

To: JohnM who wrote (131050)	8/10/2005 6:46:14 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793846

I could share a thousand stories about kids going off to college and being AA members down the road. Too bad colleges do not accept more responsibility in keeping alcohol off campus dorms , parties, etc. for a lot of kids it is not having alcohol at home but being away from mom and dad for the first time. Not having time management, free to do as they please. I assume those parents that let kids do dope a little at home better prepares them for college life. i have experienced a lot of horror stories about kids who went away to college and came back drunks, broken, jobless. Certainly the parents had a lot to do with the successful students carefully coaching them at a young age to be responsible and ambitious. I did my share of college recruiting around the country for a number of years and was exposed to the stories of success and failure on campus. some of the kids come from the "main line" families lots of blue blood, it appears they carry to college what was going on in home, only it escalates once away from home. I see no relationship to have a few drinks at home prior to going off to college and having your first drinks at college. If you have some statistics i would be interested. it is a random problem and most likely related to genes or continued abuse of alcohol or drugs to a point your nervous system begins to crave for it. There can be numerous reasons for kids to drink heavy in college, acceptance, shy, pressure, freedom, sex, addiction, depression.