Too many have some pocket of time we choose to spend on CC. A number seem to have no other satisfying outlet for our analytical tendencies. (I get it. But it helps to remember an anon forum isn’t real life.)
So, do we really care to find students missing on college numbers? Enough to argue? It that the “it” we need? Do we really need to fault the colleges, assume plots, point fingers? Or is it some age old, time proven need to demonize something in order to feel ourselves better?
It isn’t even the point of this thread. But it goes on in so many threads, when someone wants to link to something, as if the weight of some numbers (including CDS) is so definitive.
As for mental health, don’t assume stats on health visits or behaviors define some surge in “mental illness” in the population, among the age group, or at one specific college. More people have access to counseling, more use it to gain perspective on issues that went untended in prior times. More colleges report drunken incidents and more. Find the perspective. Don’t assume.