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74
Max Roosevelt. “Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes.”
New York Times
, February 18, 2009.
 
75
Ibid.
 
76
George Kuh. “What We’re Learning About Student Engagement from NSSE.”
Change
, March/April 2003, 25.
 
77
While some schools post the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement on their websites, most colleges keep them secret and NSSE tends not to over-generalize about national trends. The figures I use here were calculated by James Côté and Anton Allahar’s analysis of NSSE data from hundreds of colleges. See their
Ivory Tower Blues
, 9.
 
78
James Côté and Anton Allahar.
Ivory Tower Blues: A University System in Crisis
(Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 9.
 
79
Murray Sperber. “How Undergraduate Education Became College Lite,” in
Declining by Degrees
, Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow, eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
 
80
Malcolm Gladwell.
Outliers: The Story of Success
(New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2008), 35-68.
 
81
Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow, eds.
Declining by Degrees
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 1.
 
82
Kuh, 23.
 
83
Newsweek
Poll: 750 Adults Nationwide, Princeton Survey Research Associates, June 24-25, 1999.
 
84
Jeremy Rif kin.
The European Dream
(New York: Penguin /Tarcher, 2004), 27.
 
85
Barbara Ehrenreich.
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009), 59.
 
86
Lois Romano. “Literacy of College Graduates Is on the Decline.”
Washington Post
, December 25, 2005. See also Doug Lederman, “Graduated but Not Literate.”
Inside Higher Ed
, December 16, 2005, <
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/16/literacy
> (accessed February 24, 2010).
 
87
Doug Lederman. “Graduated but Not Literate.”
Inside Higher Ed
, December 16, 2005, <
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/16/literacy
> (accessed February 24, 2010).
 
88
National Endowment for the Arts. “To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence.” Research Report #47, issued November 20, 2007. Available online at <
http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.pdf
>.
 
89
Ibid.
 
90
Bob Thompson. “A Troubling Case of Readers’ Block.”
Washington Post
, November 19, 2007.
 
91
Associated Press. “Students near graduation often far from competent, study says.” January 20, 2006.
 
92
Mark Bauerlein.
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
(New York: Penguin/Tarcher, 2008), 17-21.
 
93
Laurence Steinberg.
Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do
(New York: Benson Bradford, 1997), 44.
 
94
Côté and Allahar, 66.
 
95
Paul Trout. “Student Anti-Intellectualism and the Dumbing Down of the University.” <
http://mtprof/msun.edu/Spr1997/TROUT-ST.html
> (accessed on December 10, 2007).
 
96
Ibid.
 
97
Sarah Palermo. “Police Prepare for College, Arrests Are Expected to Rise.”
Keene Sentinel
, August 22, 2008.
 
98
Philip Bantz. “Police taking it to the streets.”
Keene Sentinel
, September 2, 2008.
 
99
Stuart Rojstaczer. “Grade Inflation Gone Wild.”
Christian Science Monitor
, March 24, 2009.
 
100
Clynton Namuo. “UNH Camp Included Lewd Skits, Nudity.”
New Hampshire Union Leader
, December 15, 2008.
 
101
Kathleen Bogle. “Hooking Up: What Educators Need to Know.”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, March 21, 2008, <
http://chronicle.com/article/Hooking-Up-What-Educator/26465/
> (accessed February 24, 2010).
 
102
Robert King. “Students Drinking to Pass Out.”
Indianapolis Star
, November 8, 2008.
 
103
H. Wechsler. “Alcohol and the American College Campus.”
Change
, July/August 1996,Volume 28 (4): 20-25, 60.
 
104
Karen Kellogg. “Binge Drinking on College Campuses.”
ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education,
ED436110, 1999, <
http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-3/binge.htm
> (accessed February 19, 2010). See also John McCormick and Claudia Kalb, “Dying for a Drink.”
Newsweek,
June 15, 1998.
 
105
Catrin Einhorn. “Minnesota Bill Would Ban Limitless Drinking Specials.”
New York Times
, January 20, 2008.
 
106
Wikipedia entries on Beer Pong, Funneling, Beer Goggles, and Shotgunning (accessed January 2008).
 
107
Jeffrey Gettleman. “As Young Adults Drink to Win, Marketers Join In.”
New York Times
, October 16, 2005.
 
108
Jeffrey Gettleman. “Brewer to End Sound-Alike Bar Game.”
New York Times
, October 19, 2005.
 
109
Sarah Rodriguez. “Alcohol Marketing and Youth.”
Berkeley Daily Planet
, April 1, 2009.
 
110
“Number of Penn State Student Visits to ER for Drinking Reach New High.”
Gant Daily
, February 27, 2009.
 
111
Scott T. Walters and Melanie E. Bennett. “Addressing Drinking Among College Students.”
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
, June 2000, Volume 18 (1): 61- 67. Walters, a researcher at the University of Texas School of Public Health, regularly updates these statistics. See also Alcohol Policies Project, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Fact Sheet, March 2000.
 
112
Associated Press. “Colleges Crack Down on Binge Drinking.” October 15, 2008, <
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> (accessed February 19. 2010).
 
113
Paul Steinberg. “The Hangover That Lasts.”
New York Times,
December 29, 2008.
 
114
Center for Science in the Public Interest. “Binge Drinking on College Campuses.” December 2008, <
http://www.cspinet.org/booze/collfact1.htm
> (accessed February 19, 2010).
 
115
Meredith Granwehr. “College Drinking: Out of Control.”
Hartford Courant
, December 7, 2007.
 
116
“Hard-working freshman adrift in a sea of partying students.”
Dear Abby
, October 8, 2008.
 
117
“Parents Fed Up with Party Schools.” Nationwide Insurance news release, August 19, 2008, issued on
marketwatch.com
.
 
118
Jane E. Brody. “Curbing Binge Drinking Takes Group Effort.”
New York Times
, September 9, 2008.
 
119
Marc Fisher. “On Campus, Legal Drinking Age Is Flunking the Reality Test.”
Washington Post
, August 21, 2008.
 
120
Barrett Seaman.
Binge: What Your College Student Won’t Tell You
(Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2005), 151.
 
121
Susan Snyder. “Hate Crimes Up on Campuses, Group Says.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, November 15, 2008.
 
122
Ibid.
 
123
Stephen Wessler. “Summary of KSC Student and Faculty/Staff Focus Groups on Campus Climate.” Fall 2005, 4-10.
 
124
Angela Montefinise and Perry Chiaramonte. “Dorm’s Many Sex Cases.”
New York Daily News
, July 13, 2008. See also Steve Lieberman, “Family Renews Charges.”
The Journal News
, August 7, 2008.
 
125
Anne Matthews. “The Campus Crime Wave.”
New York Times
, March 7, 1993.
 
126
Mary P. Koss, Christine A. Gidycz, and Nadine Wisniewski. “The Scope of Rape: Incidence and Prevalence of Sexual Aggression and Victimization in a National Sample of Higher Education Students.”
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
, 1987, Volume 55, 162-170.
 
127
“Sexual Assault on Campus,” a report by The Center for Public Integrity, December 2009, available online at <
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/campus_assault/
>.
 
128
Alan D. DeSantis.
Inside Greek U.: Fraternities, Sororities, and the Pursuit of Pleasure, Power, and Prestige
(Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 2007), 102.
 
129
Maki Becker. “Three Indicted in Binge Drinking Death.”
Buffalo News
, April 1, 2009, <
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/campus_assault/
>.
 
130
Howard Pankrantz. “Teen’s Death Brings New Lesson.”
Denver Post
, March 11, 2009; and Dirk Johnson, “Rift on Indiana Campus After Student Dies.”
New York Times
, November 28, 2009.
 
131
Michele Tolela Myers. “A Drinking Death in a Fraternity House.”
New York Times
, December 6, 2008.
 
132
Amy Augustine. “Seven Arrested in November NEC Hazings.”
Concord Monitor
, March 6, 2009. See also Katie Zezima, “7 Students Pledging a Fraternity Are Burned.”
New York Times
, November 22, 2008.
 
133
Jenna Russell. “Student’s Death Sharpens Focus on Hazing.”
Boston Globe
, October 26, 2003.
 
134
Peggy Reeves Sanday.
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus (
New York, NYU Press, 1992), 33.
 
135
Larry Brown. “Baseball Not Bombs.”
The Equinox
, November 7, 2007.
 
136
“Game Day = Binge Day,”
Indianapolis Star
, October 26, 2008.
 
137
Santiago Esparza and Christina Stolarz. “52 Arrested at E. Lansing Riot.”
Detroit News
, April 7, 2008.
 
138
Ibid.
 
139
Paula Schleis. “Kent’s College Fest Turns Rowdy.”
Akron Beacon Journal
, April 25, 2009.
 
140
Curt Brown. “Was Force Necessary to Break Up Dinkytown Party?”
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
, April 26, 2009.
 
141
Joan Arehart-Treichel. “Mental Illness on Rise on College Campuses.”
Psychiatric News
, March 15, 2002.
 
142
Sabrina Tavernise. “In College and in Despair, With Parents in the Dark.”
New York Times
, October 26, 2003.
 
143
John Fauber. “Sticking Objects Under Skin Rising Among Troubled Teenagers.” McClatchy News Service, May 6, 2008. See also John Fauber, “Method Detects Self-Injury: Teens Embedding Objects Under Skin.”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
, December 4, 2008.
 
144
Associated Press. “Reporting of Underage Drinking Differs.” March 23, 2009. See also Howard Pankratz, “Littleton Teen’s Death Brings New Lesson in Alcohol’s Risk.”
Denver Post,
March 10, 2009; Mara Rose Williams, “College Students’ Right to Privacy Frequently at Odds with Parents’ Need to Know.”
Kansas City Star,
March 19, 2009.
 
145
Ibid.
 
146
Ibid.
 
147
Howard Pankratz. “Littleton Teen’s Death Brings New Lesson in Alcohol’s Risk.”
Denver Post
, March 10, 2009.
 
148
Jill Riepenhoff and Todd Jones. “Secrecy 101: College Athletic Departments Use Vague Law to Keep Public Records from Being Seen.”
Columbus Dispatch
, May 31, 2009.

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