College Clips
Published Oct. 13, 2006
Study shows male binge drinkers earn more
A September report by the National Bureau of Economic Research states that though male binge drinkers are less likely to be hired, they earn 6 percent more than non-drinkers.
Binge drinking is defined as five or more successive drinks in a night. The study followed 12,000 students over the course of 12 years, beginning in eighth grade.
"We anticipated the wage effect would be something like we observed for the employment effect, or maybe would be positive at first but would go away once we held constant factors like adult drinking," University of South Florida economics professor Jeffrey DeSimone said in an e-mail. "We certainly weren't expecting a positive coefficient on teen drinking that persists despite whatever else we included in the equation and is twice as large as that on adult drinking."
The study said this did not hold true through for females or for those who drink moderately.
— The Daily Princetonian (Princeton University)
Animal rights group decries primate practices
A former employee of the California National Primate Research Center came forward Wednesday, claiming she witnessed mistreatment of the animals in the facility.
She said she saw veterinarians malnourish, euthanize and deny medical care to monkeys at the on-campus research facility at the University of California-Davis.
Cheri Stevens, who began working at the center in 2002 but voluntarily resigned in 2005, spoke on behalf of the animal rights group Stop Animal Exploitation Now! at a press conference in South Davis, Calif., Wednesday.
"On one occasion I witnessed an infant primate being restrained past the point of consciousness," she said in a statement. "One particular incident resulted in the severe chemical burning of several male Rhesus Macaques. Animals received burns to their fingers, hands, arms, legs and faces."
— The California Aggie (University of California-Davis)
Kent State U. students comply with smoking ban
A year and a half after the on-campus smoking ban started, the Department of Residence Services at Kent State University reported that violations are minimal.
The smoking policy for residence halls, implemented in spring 2005, stipulates that there are to be smoking and non-smoking doors, said Daniel Shonk, adviser of Kent State University Interhall Council.
Security Manager Brian Hellwig said security aides tell students who smoke in non-smoking doors where the designated doors are and why they can't smoke at certain doors.
"We don't want people smoking either under or beside student's rooms or offices," Hellwig said.
Residence hall staff and security members follow similar standards when penalizing students for violating the smoking policy, he said.
"We work pretty closely with the hall staff," Hellwig said. "Our enforcement could be the same as the hall staff in terms of our policies and procedures."
— The Daily Kent Stater (Kent State University)
