Do Co-Ed Dorms Lead To More Drinking and At-Risk Behaviors?

On the whole, today’s teenagers are really, really great kids. Studies continue to show that, in general, they’re engaging in fewer risky behaviors than previous generations. Campuses are rife with high achieving, morally grounded young people, whose academic pursuits clearly leave little time for nefarious behaviors like keg parties and late night hook ups.

However, when researchers at the University of Minnesota looked at drinking and other at-risk behaviors that college students were engag...