Project Towards No Drug Abuse: A Review of the Findings and Future Directions

Objective: To provide a review of the evidence from 3 experimental trials of Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND), a senior high-school-based drug abuse prevention program.Methods: Theoretical concepts, subjects, designs, hypotheses, findings, and conclusions of these trials are presented. A total of 2,468 high school youth from 42 schools in southern California were surveyed.Results: The Project TND curriculum shows reductions in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, hard drugs, weapon carrying, and victimization. Most of these results were replicated across the 3 trials. Conclusion: Project TND is an effective drug and violence prevention program for older teens, at least for one year follow-up

Exposure to Televised Alcohol Ads and Subsequent Adolescent Alcohol Use

Objective: To assess the impact of televised alcohol commercials on adolescents, alcohol use. Methods: Adolescents completed questionnaires about alcohol commercials and alcohol use in a prospective study. Results: A one standard deviation increase in viewing television programs containing alcohol commercials in seventh grade was associated with an excess risk of beer use (44%}, wine/liquor use (34%}, and 3-drlnk episodes (26%} in eighth grade. The strength of associations varied across exposure measures and was most consistent for beer. Conclusions: Although replication is warranted, results showed that exposure was associated with an increased risk of subsequent beer consumption and possibly other consumption variables

Psychosocial Variables as Prospective Predictors of Violent Events Among Adolescents

Violent events are main causes of mortality among children and include intentional (e.g., homicide) and unintentional (e.g., accidents) circumstances. This study investigated the prediction of the self-reported occurrence of 14 violent events among eighth-grade youth from psychosocial variables measured in these same youth in seventh grade. Psychosocial variables ineluded tobacco and alcohol use, demographic variables, interpersonal variables such as family conflict, and intrapersonal variables such as risk taking. An iterative procedure, involving selection of a set of predictors and a test of the correlation of the set of predictors to the set of events, provided support for an extension of problem behavior theory to violent events

One-Year Prospective Prediction of Violence Perpetration Among High Risk Youth from Personal and Social-Environmental Variables

Objective: Measures of drug use, law-abidance beliefs, sensation seeking, fear of victimization, high-risk group identification, self- protection needs and behaviors, and demographics were investigated as longitudinal predictors of violence perpetration among 870 high-risk adolescents. Method: Self-reports from the same youth were obtained 1-year apart. Results: In addition to baseline violence perpetration, marijuana use, relatively youn1 age, male sex, high-risk group self-identification, low perceived efficacy of the police department, and nonavoidance of dangerous places predicted later perpetrated violence. Conclusion: Personal and social factors beyond baseline violent behavior predict risk for future violent behavior

Identification of Which High Risk Youth Smoke Cigarettes Regularly

This study investigated which variables distinguish high school-aged adolescents who identify themselves as members of a high-risk group and, among them, those who report regular (weekly) vs. light levels of cigarette smoking. Youth who identified with a high-risk group were most likely to report problem-prone characteristics, such as a preference to take risks and smoke cigarettes. Yet, only half of them reported regular levels of smoking. Two variables delineated light smoking among these youth: not having a close friend who smoked and placing an importance on health as a value. Development of new tobacco-use prevention strategies to impart health values is suggested

The Ursinus Weekly, December 16, 1976

Ursinus news in brief: Career seminar held; Insurance coverage modified; Correction • Tuition, Gourman discussed • Richter talks to USGA • Dept Chairmen react to SFARC letter • Letter to the editor: Reply and support • Student Activities Committee Fall 1976 allocations • Casino Night action • Ursinus replies to Gourman Report • Messiah performed • U.C. runners compete • B-ball needs time • Another super hockey season • Ursinus indoor track • Swimmers splash to two victorieshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1064/thumbnail.jp

Gravitational Waves: Search Results, Data Analysis and Parameter Estimation. Amaldi 10 Parallel Session C2

The Amaldi 10 Parallel Session C2 on gravitational wave(GW) search results, data analysis and parameter estimation included three lively sessions of lectures by 13 presenters, and 34 posters. The talks and posters covered a huge range of material, including results and analysis techniques for ground-based GW detectors, targeting anticipated signals from different astrophysical sources: compact binary inspiral, merger and ringdown; GW bursts from intermediate mass binary black hole mergers, cosmic string cusps, core-collapse supernovae, and other unmodeled sources; continuous waves from spinning neutron stars; and a stochastic GW background. There was considerable emphasis on Bayesian techniques for estimating the parameters of coalescing compact binary systems from the gravitational waveforms extracted from the data from the advanced detector network. This included methods to distinguish deviations of the signals from what is expected in the context of General Relativity

The Ursinus Weekly, February 24, 1977

Ursinus news in brief: Weekly to accept applications; Poli. Sci. Washington trip; Ursinus to exhibit frakturs; More on absenteeism; Pre Legal meets • U.S.G.A. election results • Wismer, sunshine discussed • James Craft interviewed • Dining hall probed • Letters to the editor: Information please!; TGV and South Africa • Wild blue yonder • ELO Lives!! • Cassandra • Denenberg speaks • Photos • Immaculata here tonight • Up for the match • Swimming bare machine rolls on, but men lose • Elsewhere in UC sports scenehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1066/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, February 26, 1976

WRUC is on the air • Dr. Parsons tells of visit to Germany • Election results • Student interns join WPAZ radio staff • Student-Board Comm. meets • Loyalty fund is thriving • Spiropoulos examines J.F.K. assassination • Free Library • Editorial: Food for thought or? • U.C. speakers • Editorial: Energy woes are for real and jobs are at stake • Careers vs. liberal arts • Viewpoint: Mr. Bloom\u27s point is worth repeating • Bearpit action • Seminars for women offered: Women and the law; Women and finance • JV Bears play .500 • Bears do swim! • Our bouncing Bears • Focus: Greg Thren • Spring feverhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1052/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 21, 1976

Ursinus news in brief: Parsons recovering; Damage fines abolished; Young Democrats revived; Homecoming planned; Voter registration held; MBA fair planned • Messiah cut back • Placement meetings set • Commuters organize • SAC reports • Comment: The ugly American lives on • Richter talks to freshmen • Comment: Alumni-student relations • Rheinpfalz folk culture • Bob Dean: Artist • proTheatre produces one acts • Beautiful noise • Operation: White Cloud • Coming campus events • Handwerk replaces Fry • Soccer drops three • Bears lose • X-Country splits • Kang\u27s return • McGinnis views NBA and Sixershttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1059/thumbnail.jp