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USA Today - November 17, 2010
Posted Nov 17, 2010 -- webcomm
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College students have long done crazy things. Some can be dangerous, such as a bizarre method of trying to get drunk by absorbing alcohol through the eyeball. Paul Lyons, a professor of community medicine at Temple's School of Medicine, says drinking pranks are really just experimentation by young adults who are not at full adult decision-making capacity — they are "a normal reflection of this developmental stage." But he adds that the Internet has allowed these bad behaviors to be amplified in ways they couldn't have been before.