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Freshmen Drinking and Studying More, Exercising and Volunteering Less, a Survey Finds

The freshman year brings many changes in the behavior and attitudes of students: Many drink more, study a little harder, and spend far less time on volunteer work and exercise than they did in high school.

Those were some of the findings of a new survey of nearly 25,000 freshmen at 109 four-year colleges.

The survey, "Your...

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