As exam period approaches, many students use coffee, soda or energy drinks to stay up late night after night. But some students are taking more drastic measures. According to a senior thesis by Allison Arensman '04, around 8.9 percent of ...(back to the article)
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I guess we're not going to get any follow-up on that comment.
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I'm a little confused about the "anxiety disorders" cameo. I'm an anxiety disorder sufferer, but I don't have ADD or ADHD. They are different issues. Both worthy of talking about, but not the same.
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I suppose there are also some line-drawing issues: there are plenty of legal, mind-enhancing substances that are only available to certain students. Just take a look at the supplements aisle of the health food store on Nassau Street. Sure, some of it's gimmicky, but other things (like fish oil?) actually do make you more alert, and clear-headed. Availability, then, is a hard topic to view systematically for the Honor Committee. It seems to me that the main issue here is legality vs. illegality.
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Yes, please back up your assertion with some form of evidence.
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How different?
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Why would you believe thesis research on the student body conducted 2004 has any relevance to the current student body? The average princeton student of the post-Dean Fred era is remarkably different.
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They both start with "a"
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I think every ADD/ADHD kid in school should get an * next to their GPA on their transcript. Oh, wait, Princeton is still in a dream world where GPA's are officially calculated...
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Also, where do you think the adderall on campus comes from. Ah yes, it is those Princeton students so paralyzed by ADD that they have extra medication to sell to other students. By making it a violation of the honor code your simply penalizing students who aren't wealthy/crafty enough to get a doctor to write them a prescription. Thats not to say that many people don't have legitimate ADD, but many people with the coveted diagnosis are just using it to get access to the drug. Also, i've never used aderall or will, but I think the idea of making an honor code violation is both idiotic and impractical, are we going to have mandatory pretest drug screenings?
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What about the unfair advantage that all caffeine users gain over their mormon colleagues (i.e students unwilling to break God's law), or students who are unwilling to forgo a healthy amount of sleep. In the case of mormon students, think of the difficulties of being forced to weigh the status of your immortal soul against the intense pressure to take caffeine to keep up academically with your fellow students, the vast majority of whom use caffeine to gain an unfair advantage over you. I think one would be hard pressed to say that taking adderall is more harmful to your health than sleep deprivation. Perhaps that means that sleep deprivation should be made illegal as well, and a violation of the honor code. After all, by allowing it you are only encouraging those that are willing to pursue an unhealthy lifestyle to use their self-destructiveness to gain an advantage over their peers. I for one think that mandatory bed checks are in order, anyone awake after midnight should be expelled
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Attention deficit disorder and anxiety disorders are not even close to the same thing.
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