NYT:Calling the Folks About Campus Drinking

<p>How many students really care if their parents are called? My kids know that there is little I can really do about their behavior at school and a call home is not something they live in fear of! What am I going to do, stop paying the college bills? Not likely and they know it! The only thing that a phone call could do is alert parents, who may TALK to the kid or maybe go for a visit to TALK to the kid, and after all, isn’t communication really the key anyway?</p>