Ah, College - A Time to Steal and Break Stuff

Here's something for the empty nesters (or soon to be): A new study has named college attendance as a risk factor for bad behavior. Sociologists examined survey data for thousands of adolescents and young adults and found that male college students are more likely to commit property crimes than their non-college peers. And--brace yourself for a shock--drinking levels are higher for college men too. (For some reason the article didn't address the ladies of higher learning.) The money quote by the lead researcher: “College attendance is commonly associated with self-improvement and upward mobility. Yet this research suggests that college may actually encourage, rather than deter, social deviance and risk-taking.'’
I'm hoping to engage in a little social deviance and risk-taking myself during my impending summer vacation, so I'll be checked out from the blog for a week.