Breaking: College Students Like to Drink, Have Sex

animal_house

The Journal of American College Health is publishing a new study that reports university students in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink every week, and that they are also likely to have more sexual partners, and use pornography more. Additional information revealed that most college students prefer to live in co-ed dorms, and many students in single-sex housing are not there by choice. Even more shocking: the desire to binge drink apparently crosses all boundaries of age, gender, and personality. But come on, what else are they going to do? Adult Swim is terrible these days, and they're not going start writing that paper on panopticism until the night before.

Seriously though, there was a study conducted to find this information out? With money and time and effort? I could have found this out from my Facebook live feed on Saturday. But ever since I was a little kid, I knew that college was a land of no rules, like Bangkok or the island from Lord of the Flies. I'm pretty sure that's the whole premise behind it. That "higher education" thing is a fringe benefit, right?

Commentarium (8 Comments)

Nov 20 09 - 2:47pm
Winnie

Was this study conducted by a time-displaced Quaker?

Nov 20 09 - 3:04pm
Matthew

Close - a Mormon

Nov 20 09 - 3:21pm
teatri

Whaaaat? College kids like to do it?

Nov 20 09 - 4:44pm
Spanish Johnny

More breaking news: college kids like to do the pot too.

Nov 20 09 - 6:56pm
Lally

Unfortunately, the link is broken.

Nov 21 09 - 10:32pm
melysa martinez

Ditto on that last comment

Nov 22 09 - 3:29am
Eric Larnick

Well that's a bummer. We'll get it fixed ASAP!
In the meantime, go here:
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_co-ed-dorms-fuel-unhealthy-behavi...

Dec 03 09 - 7:34am
asterios kokkinos

a reference to the panopticon & adult swim in the same article. this. is. awesome.