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Table 19Civic Engagement: Future GoalsPercentage of students reporting goals as“very important” or “essential” to them:PercentageHelping others in difficulty 79.5Keeping up-to-date with political affairs 43.6Becoming a community leader 38.9Participating in a community action program 38.7Becoming involved with programs to clean up the environment 33.3Influencing the political structure 22.4Peer Relationships and Personal Health in the First-YearIn their first-year of college, students reported finding time for socializing with theirfriends. As shown in Table 20, eight in ten students (80.7%) reported interacting with theirfriends at their home institution “daily,” either in person or via some other means ofcommunication. One in three respondents (30.3%) indicated that they maintained “daily”communication with friends who were not at their institution, and somewhat fewer (23.9%) had“daily” interaction with their high school friends. Many students also reported plugging intocampus social networks, such as student groups/clubs (62.6%) and fraternities or sororities(11.7%).Table 20Socializing in the First College YearPercentage of students reporting that they:PercentageHad daily interaction:With friends at this institution 80.7With friends not at this institution 30.3With friends from high school 23.9Participated in student groups/clubs 62.6Joined a social fraternity or sorority 11.7As shown in Table 21, males and females reported doing some social activities withdifferent frequencies. In an average week, more males than females reported spending five or19
more hours on online social networks (30.6% vs. 23.2%). On the other hand, a slightly largerpercentage of male students reported spending more than five hours in the typical week instudent clubs or groups (11.5% vs. 9.4%). Male students were also more likely to reportspending five or more hours in a typical week partying (21.5% vs. 15.8%). Overall, only 17.7%of all students spent more than five hours partying in a typical week.Table 21Student Social Activities in the First College Year, by GenderSpent more than 5 hours in a typical week: Female Male TotalSocializing with friends 74.9 77.1 75.7Online social networks (e.g. MySpace, Facebook) 30.6 23.2 28.1Partying 15.8 21.5 17.7Student clubs/groups 9.4 11.5 10.1Partying and alcohol consumption often go hand-in-hand. Approximately half of all firstyearrespondents reported “occasionally” or “frequently” drinking beer (47.5%) and/or wine orliquor (53.0%) since entering college (Table 22). Taking a look at heavy episodic or “binge”drinking, the majority of students reported drinking five or more alcoholic beverages in a rowzero times over the last two weeks (65.8%). However, 34.2% did report drinking five or morealcoholic drinks in a row at least once in the last two weeks.Table 22 also shows that only one in ten students reported that during their first year ofcollege they “frequently” felt depressed (11.8%), and a similar number felt lonely or homesick(10.8%). Slightly more students, 15.8%, reported seeking personal counseling since enteringcollege, and two in five students (40.1%) reported “frequently” feeling overwhelmed by all theyhad to do.20
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