... It makes sense that colleges would want women and men in the same dorms--usually on separate floors--to civilize the men there. I' ... loss of so many women's colleges, and wish that more than just 13% of college dorms were single-sex, to allow more freedom of choice.& ... ;collegians accept alcohol use and abuse, whether in co-ed dorms or in the taverns of University Avenues across the land. ...

... students, rates of drinking and sexual activity are higher when they live in coed dorms. In the past 30 years, coed college dormitories have gone from rare to routine, with nearly all students who live on campus now sharing housing with ... times as likely to drink to excess on a weekly basis. More than 90% of college dorms today house both sexes, generally separated by floors or ...

... It's no secret to students that coed dorms are more fun than same-sex dorms. But they can also fuel very unhealthy behavior that ... Some 90 percent of U.S. college dorms are now coed. ... In light of the finding, the natural question is whether a selection effect ... doesn't appear to be the case, the researchers said in a statement today. College housing offices generally assume students prefer ...

... 're also likely to have more sexual partners, the study found. Also, pornography use was higher among students in coed dorms. Some 90 percent of U.S. college dorms are now coed. More than 500 students from five college campuses around the country participated in the study. Among the results: 42 percent of students in coed housing reported binge ...

... colleges. I also admire Christian teens who willingly go to the local community college because there is no money for anything else or enroll in the state university because they want to take part in the academic programs ( ... dreams, nothing. I watched as friends went off to school (I helped some of them move into their dorms that fall), while I hid safe and sound in my part-time job selling life ...

Last week, a study published in the Journal of American College Health found that students who live in coed residence ... to choose these options, especially since they are not the norm.  It is another lifestyle decision that college students are forced to make as they venture on into adulthood. ... Technorati Tags: coed dorms and alcohol, alcohol and college housing, college housing, alcohol on ...

... the residential colleges at UVa. The residential college system differs from the traditional dorms a bit. In the dorms, all the first years live together. In the residential colleges, the class years are mixed and students often have a little more programming than the traditional dorms do. When I first came to UVa, someone insisted that Brown was for "hippies". When I ...

... co-ed housing were 2.5 times more likely than those in all-male or all-female dorms to admit to binge-drinking on a weekly basis. They were also ... to request co-ed housing. Few college students specifically ask for single-sex housing, the researcher noted, and most that end up in those dorms were simply placed there by their universities. ... Willoughby speculated that co-ed dorms may implicitly ...

... by Dr. Brian J. Willoughby while at the University of Minnesota found that college students were more than 2.5 times as likely to binge drink if they ... team found that 41 percent of students living in co-ed dorms hit the bar on a weekly basis as compared to only 18 ... . Also, 44 percent of undergrads living in co-ed dorms said they had had sex within the past year, while only 63 reported getting their ...

... to their teens about their own teen drug use in the past. Studies by Hazelden which has a sober college, Brigham Young University that has a sober dorm, and the Partnership for a Drug ... break those patterns by opening up the lines of communication. While I'm not attending a sober college I am living in a sober dorm. Please contact us if your teen is struggling with alcohol or drug dependence ...