Senior Washed Up Girls at Yale

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<p>PostPunkMom, if I were sending a daughter–or son–off to college now, I think I would have her or him read the two papers we’ve seen linked here and discuss them before school starts. Seriously.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/240951/original/[/url]”>http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/240951/original/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf[/url]”>https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I would make it clear, especially to a D, that the beginning of freshman year is the most vulnerable period, and while you want her to have a good time and you have confidence in her, you also want her to be informed.</p>

<p>All of the self-defense classes in the world won’t help if she allows herself to be plied with alcohol and isolated or otherwise coerced.</p>