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High school seniors don’t party like they used to?
Research out of the University of California-Los Angeles confirms that today’s college freshmen recall spending much less time partying and drinking alcohol in their last year of high school than their predecessors.
The survey of 153,015 first-time, full-time students at four-year colleges and universities found that freshmen who said they had partied less than an hour a week in their senior year of high school rose from 24 percent in 1987 to 61 percent in 2014; about 41 percent reported that they did not party at all. During the same 27-year span, students who report partying six hours or more per week in high school fell from 35 percent to 9 percent. This, of course, is a good thing.