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Collison, Michele N-K – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
At the annual meeting of the National Interfraternity Conference, the national presidents of 59 fraternities voted to study alternatives to pledging. Some think that pledging has become synonymous with hazing, and that eliminating pledging would reduce the chances for abuse. (MLW)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Change, Discipline Problems, Fraternities
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James, William H.; And Others – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 1996
Assessed drug use and defensiveness among 28 adolescents, grades 9-12, using a six-month tracking study of alternative school adolescents. Defensiveness correlated with school credit deficiency and a high rate of legal trouble and discipline problems in defensive males. Suggests that denial and defensiveness are risk factors for drug use and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior, Defense Mechanisms