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A survey of sleep habits amongst college students and the way their habits affect driving and academic performance.

This article demonstrates the validation of the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire. It presents a study performed on college students. The latter participate in three sessions and take different tests from which data is collected. This study verifies the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire. It also demonstrates the direct relationship between heavy drinking and poor academic performance. Although the paper presents very important information, however, it does not provide enough background information.

Why college football is more cutthroat and competitive than the NFL. Slate articles cannot be transferred to Diigo. You can access this article at: http://www.slate.com/id/2203927/

This article talks about fast food and its impact on this generation. It involves McDonald's legal battles with people becoming obese. This article has insite the obesity issue, that will be helpful to my paper. The outlook had good percentages to age to college kids consuming fast food.

Would lowering the legal age help colleges curb alcohol abuse?

A section of this article describes the 1st amendment and how it was used in the College/University lifestyle. This situation went all the way up to the Attorney General. The question that is being asked is if religion should be allowed in a social school environment.

This article calls for young Americans to get involved in politics and make their voices heard. Presidential candidates are promising everything to everyone but will likely fall short of that and some group will not get what they want. To ensure that young Americans get what they need, they should demand that the new president follows through with the promises he made. With Barack Obama promising Social Security reform and lowering the cost and making college more available to the youth of America. "Ask not what you can do for Barack Obama, ask what Barack Obama can do for you" challenges young Americans to demand that there needs be met by their president.

Jefferson Community College teacher Ken Hardy wanted to teach a class on taboo words. He said one and lost his job. Most of the piece is a story about what happened to Hardy, but the third page of the article contains some thoughtful commentary on the power of the word.

A film on OhioLINK. From the beginning of time, women have had the same thirst for knowledge as men, but were denied access to education. This program looks at the religious attitudes that support these age-old convictions, and examines what the world has lost by excluding women from the intellectual loop. Scriptural scholar Elaine Pagels tells about newly discovered documents suggesting that women were equal to men in early Christianity. Historian Ginette Paris looks at the powerful goddesses of the past who were shunted aside in favor of the submissive image of the Virgin Mary. A Bangladeshi writer faces a death decree for writing about Islam's oppression of women. At Wellesley College and the University of Norway, we visit programs devoted exclusively to women's studies. (47 minutes, color) (cc)

This article discusses the relationship between the density of alcohol outlets around different colleges, alcohol consumption among students, and both personal and second hand effects. It shows that the more alcohol available, the more the consumption. Consequently, as students drink more alcohol they tend to harm themselves and others. This study provides useful information and statistics, even if it consists of a certain percent error.

This article discusses the relationship between the density of alcohol outlets around different colleges, alcohol consumption among students, and both personal and second hand effects. It shows that the more alcohol available, the more the consumption. Consequently, as students drink more alcohol they tend to harm themselves and others. This study provides useful information and statistics, even if it consists of a certain percent error.

This article explains the heavy use of alcohol in most of the universities in the United States. It portrays the effects of alcohol abuse on several aspects, including academic performance. It also presents ways to decrease binge drinking at universities. The latter do not simply rely on alcohol education but goes far beyond that. This research presents excellent ideas to stop the consumption of alcohol among underage college students.

The author describes the necessary means needed to take place in order to get college academic programs up to par and back on track with ideal standards. He argues a convincing argument on how to attain an athletic program geared toward having sufficient academic outcomes. According to the author, the answer to achieve such a goal "lies within the organizational placement of athletics within the academic administrative structure" (12). Nonetheless, both student advisors and student athletes themselves play an important role in the outcome of their academic achievement. With adequate research, the author provides information that is valuable for this study at hand.

This article discusses the addition of academic support programs on campuses and the increased student athlete advisory support at universities. Many state that their reason for such an addition is due to the new academic rules set by the NCAA. Although many universities are deciding to add new programs, increasing academic support is nothing new. Several colleges have faced scrutiny along the way for spending too much money on facilities and personnel necessary for improving academic programs. The authors do a great job of expressing the importance and need for such academic programs and support.

The investigation by the attorney general appears to be focused on the adequacy of disclosure of policy terms and costs to students.

Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" and other works, was artist-in-residence recently at the University of Maryland at College Park. This is part of a conversation he had with reporter Valerie Strauss about young people and literature.

The NBA, which cares about higher education only as a source of player development, hypocritically praises the Toronto Raptors star's graduation side trip. An opinion piece, so shallow on facts, but has links to other sites.

This story is about a course that lasted 34 years and the University of Iowa. This document described how being able to teach the Bible to the class allow the students to learn more efficiently and made them more capable in the long run. This article gives specific examples such as the agenda on which the class was run as well as some of the student's feedback on the overall situation of teaching that course.

This article was a study that examined nutritional education, label reading behavior, and compared these answers with age, sex, education level. The study was aimed to test label reading in correlation to previous nutritional education and knowledge level. This source had good statistics in the introduction. The paper may have been alittle off my topic but did have useful conslusions on to who reads the nutrtional labels. The test was mostly women, undergraduates, and nonsmokers, so may have been bias in people being studied.

This article was a study that examined nutritional education, label reading behavior, and compared these answers with age, sex, education level. The study was aimed to test label reading in correlation to previous nutritional education and knowledge level. This source had good statistics in the introduction. The paper may have been alittle off my topic but did have useful conslusions on to who reads the nutrtional labels. The test was mostly women, undergraduates, and nonsmokers, so may have been bias in people being studied.