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Show ITWr WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 by LARRY GORDON dining high school may mean they coidd be more tempted to binge chink and get into other trouble as social newbies away from the constraints of home. That risk will challenge colleges to provide enough counseling support and substance abuse education, he said. TNS 15 of college showed freslimen up at school as less experienced party animals than then older peers but with more mental health and The current crop 3 3 emotional issues, according to a survey by the UniversLos Angeles of California, ity h lal lid. ual )Ut ca searchers. At the college same time, the new students who entered then-parent- ory ault t. nee s m. - e to :se lent tu- l- survey suggests that the incoming freslimen "were buckling down prior to college and taking their academics more seriously," said Kevin Eagan, interim managing director of UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, which has administered the. However, it remains unclear whether these students will prove on average to be a tame group, Eagan said. In fact, he said their relative abstinence The - ed continued from Page 2 most common mortgages and credit ;o cards about 706,000 iy households headed by and lomeone 65 or older carry citizens are cult t is rec- - POLICY ontinued from Page o 1 present it to the people iho have the power to nake the change., Tommer said a presentat- ion is being put together show to the faculty senate. Then, it is up to the faculty to determine whether it will progress to the policy committee. The presentation is set some time before graduation, ai.u Warren Anderson, DSL2A vice president ned of academics elect and a 00. senior accounting major from Santa Clara, will be working with the facd by ulty senate to develop the jars policy further during his t summer internship. nt Warren has been ent to S? T - W DIXIESUNNEWS.COM -- 3- utTuTCSOD into their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond. "We can't just bury our heads in the sand and hope that it goes away," she said. The GAO found that the majority of student loan involved since day one, Tommer said, So he is completely and totally informed. Warren said because of his lack of knowledge in relation to the policy and its development, he did not feel comfortable answering any specific questions. However, he did say his primary focus was to interview and hire next years academic senators. The biggest step taken toward development of the policy was the completion of a survey, Tommer said. The survey, created Feb. 3 by Sharp, DSU director of student involvement and leadership, quantified students understanding of cheating, and it will be includ ed in the presentation to the faculty senate. Tommer said although Kent was the one who initially approached the senate with doncerns about DSUs lack of a clear and comprehensive academic integrity policy, communication between them has been sparse throughout the semester. Kent said other than the survey, nothing of substance to further the policys development has been done. It is on hold, Kent said. They tried doing a survey and got about 340 to 350 responses. With the changing of the sen' ators, things have slowed down. So, as far as I can tell, it has been put on the back burner. A r ' I m, U ar DEBT r --' debt from their education. That's 3 percent of households headed by someone in that age group. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said more and more Americans are dealing with student loan debt percent 10 years ago. Along the same lines, those who said they occasionally or found. l r frequently drank beer dropped to 335 percent, compared with 455 percent a decade before and 69 percent in 1984. Just 39 percent of current freshmen said they drank wine or hard liquor in the last year, compared with about 52 percent 10 years ago and 68 percent in 1987, when the poll addressed the issue. Colleges around the country are struggling to meet higher demands for psychological and crisis counseling. ' The survey, which was taken by 153,000 students mainly during last summer's orientations at 227 four-yecol tionally, 61 percent reported that they spent only an hour or less a week at parties, up from 39 s teens when many of grappled with the recessare ion's economic fallout more concerned about financial success and aspire to attend eradiate schools to enhance D their career prospects, the annual American Freshman study their v ii of college-educate- d leges, bolstered those concerns. they wanted to earn a doctorate people who journey, Eagan said. Plus, lost jobs . As a result , they are or professional degree also was Nearly 12 percent of tire freshworries about college costs and men rated their mental health at a new peak: nearly a third, student debt heighten desires for entering early adulthood believas worse than most others their a good salary after graduation, ing they need more money to compared with 21 percent four be comfortable and seeing that decades ago. age; that compared with roughhe said. a bachelor's degree may not Freshmen saw tire economy ly 7 percent about a decade ago (c) Distributed by McClatchy-Tribun- e and 3.5 percent in 1985, when be tire end of their educational crash in 2009 and many knew Information Services. the question was first asked, hr addition, 95 percent said they frequently felt depressed, up from the 6 percent low point, recorded in 2009. This is signaling that students are bringing with them some emotional struggles, some mental health issues and those issues could make it har der for students to stay in school and earn a college degr ee, said Eagan, who is an assistant professor of education at UCLA. Yet whatever problems the freshmen have, a lack of ambition is not one of them. A record I 82 percent said that it was very A. important or essential that finanthey become well-o- ff with cially, compared nearly W 77 percent in 2008 before the recession hit and almost double what it was 40 years ago during rC r the counterculniral era. Similarly, the share of students rI; ?C entering college with plans A- H to eventually earn a master's degree increased to about 44 A student at the University of Central Florida studies between classes. According to the percent, also a record and up Annual American Freshman study, more college freshmen are focused on academics from 28 percent four decades more so than their social lives. ago. Freshmen who indicated Nearly 1 1 percent of respondents said they spent six hours or more a week at parties during their senior year of high school, down from 23 percent a decade ago, the survey found. Addi- national a- WE' Siodly says 1 n.L debt for older Americans was incurred as a result of their own education, not the education of their children. Anderson, who works for the University of California, Santa Cruz, attended college in her 30s and eventu- ally graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees. She said she decided to consolidate her loans to make one payment instead of having to keep track of all of the separate payments. When going through the almost consolidation year-lon- g she did not know process, never refishe could that nance the loan. 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