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Today's students bring emotional baggage.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
More students are coming to school with emotional problems today than five years ago, according to the Summer 2004 issue of Connections, the quarterly journal of the New England Board of Higher Education. And their emotional problems have grown more severe.
"These students are creating a need for significant expansions in college counseling services," wrote University of New England President Sandra Featherman. "We have seen a tripling of visits to our counseling offices in the last three years."
Campus suicides and date rape are two of the hot issues for college students. Featherman noted that five years ago, she sent two or three students per year to the hospital for suicide attempts. "By the middle of the second semester this year, we had hospitalized at least eight young students."
In addition, campuses have trouble telling the truth about date rape, noted University of Massachusetts ...
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- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Bayliff, Claudia March 1, 1997 700+ words
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- Evaluation of an Intervention to Change Attitudes Toward Date Rape.
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 15, 1996 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Nina McCain, Globe Staff November 11, 1987 700+ words
...eight college women has been the victim of a "date rape" or "acquaintance rape." Date rape has become a topic of major concern on most...violence and attract publicity. But the typical date rape involves some drinking, a lonely, isolated...
- Universities struggle with date-rape cases.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Cavaan, Azell Murphy March 14, 1999 700+ words
...throughout the nation, Lisa was a victim of date rape. And like the majority of victims...t report the crime to campus police. Date rape, unlike an attack by an anonymous assailant...both women and men watch a skit in which date rape occurs, they come away with very different...
- A mixed-gender date rape prevention intervention targeting freshmen college...
- Magazine article from: College Student Journal Holcomb, Derek R. Savage, Michael P. Seehafer, Roger Waalkes, Deanna M. June 1, 2002 700+ words
...experimental design was used to compare the date rape attitudes of freshman athletes who were exposed to a mixed-gender date rape workshop (n=56) with those of...validated instrument, the 25 item Date Rape Attitudes Survey (DRAS) was used...
- DATE RAPE DRUG VICTIMS ABUSED ON FILM; Campaigners warn of porn gangs.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) December 22, 2002 700+ words
...SILVESTER PORNOGRAPHY gangs are using date rape drugs to film women being abused, campaigners...his victims - one just 17 - using the date rape drug GHB so he could attack them while...being killed." The Foundation says date rape often goes unreported because victims...
