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by Jean M. Twenge Jean M. Twenge has been writing about generational differences for 25 years, producing bestsellers like Generation Me and The Narcissism Epidemic . In her latest book, Twenge zeroes in on iGen, the kids born in 1995 and later who have grown up with smartphones, had an Instagram page before they started high school and do not remember a time before the internet. The average teen checks her phone more than 80 times a day. The oldest iGen-ers, as she calls them, were early adolescents when the iPhone was introduced in 2007 and high school students when the iPad entered the market in 2010. Twenge argues the complete dominance of the smartphone among teens has had ripple effects across every area of iGen-er lives, from their social interactions to their mental health. Twenge draws on national surveys of 11 million Americans, conducted since 1960, to reach her conclusions. From about 2012, she started seeing "large, abrupt shifts in teens' behaviour and emoti...

The Pleasanton City Council is set Tuesday to consider final approval of a proposed ordinance to implement stringent smoking regulations for rental apartments across the city. On track to take effect early next year, the new restrictions would include banning smoking inside individual units , on balconies and patios, in all indoor and outdoor common areas and within 25 feet of those locations at apartment complexes under single ownership with two or more leased units. The council gave unanimous support to the proposed ordinance during a first reading in June, but asked city staff to do more research on how to handle medical marijuana before giving final approval . Under the recommendation from city staff, the ordinance would allow medical marijuana smoking inside apartment units "if tenant provides landlord written documentation that tenant needs it for medical purposes , no alternative means of delivery or ingestion are available and tenant is unable to smoke o...

LSU Move-In Day (Source: Brandon Shackelford/WAFB) BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Wednesday is move-in day at LSU, where both incoming freshman and returning students got settled into their new dorm rooms. Parents and student volunteers helped freshman move into their rooms at various halls like Acadian and Blake. Students going into the Ogden Honors College were welcomed by President F. King Alexander at a Picnic in the Laville Courtyard. Some students said they're a little nervous, but still looking forward to college life. "I'm excited to go to football games and everything,” said freshman Bailey Viera , from Gonzales. “I'm by my old high school so I'm definitely gonna look forward to hanging out with old friends and making new friends and everything too." "I'm excited about football games and being away from home,” said freshman Emilie Richoux from Covington. “And getting to walk around campus, things like that." Members of the LSU football t...

Everyone but physical therapist Danene Brown had left for lunch on a spring day in 2013 when there came a knock at the door at The Gait Center, a Henrico County rehabilitation facility that specializes in helping people who have trouble walking because of injury, illness or disability. Brown opened the door and there, on crutches, stood Cor’Rales Dupree, a young man who clearly had recently lost part of a leg. An IV pole stood next to him. “When can I start?” Dupree asked an astonished Brown . The short answer was not right then — not so soon after being discharged from the hospital and certainly not while he was still attached to an IV pumping antibiotics into him. But within weeks, appointments were made and the work began, and it’s never stopped for Dupree, who had just turned 16 when on Thanksgiving Day in 2012 he was shot while protecting his mother and younger brother from his mother’s enraged ex-boyfriend. The severity of two gunshot wounds to his left leg ...

By: Lanetra Bennett | WCTV Eyewitness News August 25, 2017 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) -- As promised, students were able to move into the Palmetto North dorm on FAMU's campus on Friday after days of delay due to mold. Interim FAMU President Dr . Larry Robinson said that there is no excuse for the dorm not being ready, but the school jumped into actions to fix the problems, and parents feel much better about it. Students are happy to to finally be moving in, despite the delay. Incoming freshman Lenice Sejour is ready to get things going, telling WCTV "FAMU is my dream school." By: Lanetra Bennett | WCTV Eyewitness News August 24, 2017 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) -- Dozens of FAMU students who showed up to move into their dorm are now displaced. The students expecting to move into Palmetto North residence hall on Palmetto Street on FAMU's campus. FAMU was re- opening Palmetto North because of an increase in incoming freshmen . Re...

Kelci Holman and Nicholas Beardsley July 29, 2017, in Philadelphia Hello there Every day after work at the Fox Chase Cancer Center lab , Kelci took the train to see Nic, the guy she had met as they both learned how to mentor incoming freshman honors students two weeks before. Between Fox Chase and University City, the Roslyn native came up with what she hoped were reasonable excuses for her to be on campus, because Nic was interesting, and cute, and so funny. “She’d say something like, ‘Oh, I’m in town to do something with a friend, but if you’re going to be around later, we could hang out,’ ” Nic, who was then a rising sophomore architecture major , remembered. There were group outings, such as seeing Batman in IMAX. But sometimes, it was just the two of them. “We both love watching the Olympics, and so I’d be like, ‘Oh! Let’s go watch swimming!’ or something,” said Kelci, who...