Posts Tagged ‘college’
Study Says Gamers “Likely” Substance Users
One of the general problems with a large body of psychological research is that it’s conducted on college campuses with most of the subjects being college students. A study has been conducted in the glorious state of Utah that claims to show that gamers are more likely to use controlled substances and make negative decisions.
When they surveyed 800 students they found that students who played video games regularly were 10% more likely to drink or take drugs then their non-gaming friends. Those who play daily were three times more likely to smoke pot, stop talking to friends and family or have low self-esteem.
Unfortunately for these researchers, college kids have been drinking since before video games were anything but a bar room novelty. Films like Animal House and television shows are much more to blame for the prevalence of teenage drinking and drug use than all the video games rolled into one. Conducting a study on how a generally irresponsible group with vast amounts of free time amuse themselves sounds like a bad idea, especially when you throw in the fact that BYU is a religious school.
Student Uses Controller To Trace Stolen Console
This is a definite case for one of those “dumbest criminal” shows. Ryan Ketsenburg, a college student at Missouri State University returned to his dorm room to discover that while he was gone he’d left the door unlocked and someone had swiped his Xbox 360. A smart criminal would have quickly absconded with the console and gotten as far away as possible, selling it on eBay or hawking it. Unfortunately for this small time crook they didn’t get far enough away.
Ketsenburg discovered that when he turned his Xbox 360 controller on it was still able to connect to the console which of course meant it was somewhere nearby. He went up and down the stairs of his dorm, finally concluding that his console was in a room on the fifth floor. Following the controller’s signal he discovered what room the console was in and got the fifth floor RA to open the door for him. He proved the console belonged to him simply by turning on the Xbox with his controller.
Unfortunately for Mr. Ketsenburg the hard drive had been formatted, likely in an attempt to erase the evidence of who owned it before so let’s hope he hadn’t gotten too far into Last Remnant before it was stolen.