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Experts: gambling on rise among American youth
By David Crary
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Whether
with their friends at parties, at
school or in solitude on the
Internet, millions of American
teens are taking up an ever-
more-accessible national pas
time — gambling.
Much of the action is small
time — underage purchases of
lottery tickets, playing cards or
dice games for spare change.
But experts say the long-term
stakes are high because gam
blers who start young are the
most likely to develop addiction
problems.
“This is the first generation
of kids growing up when gam
bling is legal and available virtu
ally nationwide,” said George
Meldrum of the Delaware
Council on Gambling Problems.
“Casinos, racetracks — they
take it for granted.”
Nationwide statistics on
youth gambling are scarce, but
regional surveys suggest more
than 30 percent of all high
school students gamble periodi
cally.
Middle-schoolers are follow
ing suit, as evidenced by the
uncovering of a sports-betting
ring at a Glenview, Ill., middle
school last year. In Delaware,
Meldrum’s agency recently con
ducted one of the largest-ever
surveys of student gambling;
nearly one-third of 6,753 partic
ipating eighth-graders said they
had gambled in 2002.
Survey finds a high rate of gambling among teenagers
A survey of Percentage of students who gambled during 2002
middle and
high school
students in
Overall
By type of wager
Casino Lottery Sports Cards
Horses
Bingo
Dice
Internet
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Delaware
showed
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grade
31%
3%
32% 34%
32%
7%
25%
16%
9%
32%
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gambled
during 2002.
11th
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3%
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26%
6%
11%
13%
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30%
SOURCE: Delaware Council on Gambling ProWema, Inc.
Those who gambled were
much more likely than other stu
dents to smoke, drink alcohol,
use illegal drugs and commit
petty crimes, the survey found.
Such trends are the focus of
research at the International
Center for Youth Gambling
Problems, based at McGill
University in Montreal. The
center’s co-director, Jeffrey
Dervensky, said studies indicate
that compulsive gambling prob
lems afflict up to 8 percent of
young gamblers, compared with
up to 3 percent of adult gam
blers.
Adult gambling addicts may
seek help when they realize their
job or marriage is imperiled, but
young people are less likely to
do so, Dervensky said.
“These kids still live at home,
and nobody’s dragging them in,
saying, 'If you don’t go for help,
I’m leaving you,”’ Dervensky
said. “These kids steal money,
usually from their family. If you
get caught, your parents are not
going to turn you in.”
Keith Whyte, executive direc
tor of the National Council on
Problem Gambling, said more
than 80 percent of American
adults now gamble at least occa
sionally — a possible reason for
what he sees as a worrisome tol
erance of youth gambling.
“We’ve had a number of par
ents say. Thank God, it’s just
gambling,”’ Whyte said.
Sometimes, a parent’s pas
sion for gambling is passed on
to an adolescent. That happened
in the case of Sarah, now a 31-
year-old executive in New York
City who accompanied herpj
ents to Atlantic City casinosasi
teenager, became hooked, ®:
now attends regular
Gamblers Anonymous to
an addiction that
into a six-figure debt.
“From the first time
ly sat down at a blackjack 1#
and played, when 1 was 18a
19, it was pretty obvious lw
n’t normal,” said Sarah, win
asked that her last
withheld. “I wouldn’
get up even to go to
room. I was a little crazy,
all 1 wanted to do.”
Sarah predicted that
bling will spread amongyo«
people because of the omnipre
ence of betting options and tk
availability of credit cards.
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Amy Stancoven, a senior community health major and Crystal
Littrell, Class of 2001, take advantage of the weekend's clear
skies on the Guadalupe River near New Braunfels. Temperatures
in the mid-90s made river activities ideal over the weekend.
NAACP director
praises affirmatk
action, rips Bush
By Coralie Carlson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fox continues losing support in Mexico
By Morgan Lee
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s
former ruling party won its
fourth of the country’s six state
gubernatorial elections, accord
ing to preliminary results
released Sunday, generating
more momentum for its efforts
to regain power from President
Vicente Fox.
The outcome of the
Campeche state gubernatorial
election was released as federal
authorities were set to confirm
that Fox’s conservative National
Action Party, or PAN, lost ground
in the July 6 midterm congres
sional elections. The former rul
ing Institutional Revolutionary
Party, or PRI, and the leftist
opposition gained seats.
Since he took office in 2000,
Fox has struggled with an often
hostile Congress, and his party
was hoping for a majority in the
last three years of his term.
However, the results — in which
no party gained a
majority — set
the stage for
three more years
of legislative
inaction.
“The legisla
tion that the PAN
was looking for
is not going to
happen,” politi
cal analyst Ana
Maria Salazar
said. “The presi
dent’s going to
have to find a way to renegoti
ate. He’s going to have to give
up something.”
Voters have been frustrated
a
The president is
going to have to find
a way to renegotiate.
He’s going to have to
give up something.
growth and a migration accord
with the United States.
PRI lost the presidency to
Fox in 2000 after 71 years of
rule. But it
staged a national
comeback in the
July 6 elections,
including win
ning four gover
nor’s races.
That includes
Campeche state,
in which the PRI
was given the
official lead
Sunday. PRI can
didate Jorge
Carlos Hurtado
Ana Maria Salazar
political analyst
with Fox’s inability to deliver on
promises of reform, economic
received about 4,000 more votes
than the PAN’s Juan Carlos del
Rio, although the results were
not certified and likely will be
contested, state election official
Luis Maury said.
In the Pacific coast state of
Sonora, the PRI’s Eduardo Bours
. won the gubernatorial race by a
margin of 1 percent, according to
final results released Saturday.
The PAN also was expected to
contest that election.
In the races for the 500 seats in
the lower house of Congress, fed
eral officials already have
announced the 300 winners
directly elected by voters. On
Sunday, authorities will assign
the rest of the 200 seats to at-large
candidates, based on each party’s
percentage of the total vote.
So far, the PRI and its ally,
the Green Party, have 163 of the
300 directly elected seats in the
lower house, showing that its
political machinery remains in
good working order.
“It reflects that fact that the
party still has a very disciplined
voter base,” Salazar said.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -
NAACP executive director
Julian Bond urged states that
have abandoned affirmative
action policies for higher educa
tion to “come back into the
Union” Sunday while criticizing
President Bush and his brother,
Gov. Jeb Bush, for challenging
race-conscious admissions.
Speaking at the 94th annual
convention of the National
Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People, Bond praised the recent
U.S. Supreme Court ruling that
upheld the use of race as a factor
in university admissions poli
cies.. The Bush administration
filed one of the briefs opposing
the policy.
The court, however, ruled
against the use of a point-based
system for enrollment decisions,
which was used at the
University of Michigan.
“The court struck down the
points but upheld the principle,”
Bond said. “Since the opponents
kept telling us that this was all
about principle, I’d say we
won!”
Bond said the decision “gave
legal sanction to what we knew
to be morally, socially, and edu
cationally correct.”
But he said he knows affir
mative action policies will be
continue to be challenged.
“The average KKK member
may be stupid, but the well-
financed forces of the radical
right are not,” Bond said.
He also vowed the civil rights
group would be watching states,
including Florida, that no longer
use affirmative action policies to
monitor their commitment to
achieving diversity.
Bond criticized the Florida
governor for his One Florida
program, under which state uni
versities can no longer consider
race or gender in admissions
decisions. High school students
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the Democratic candidates (®
president who are not
appear at a Monday forum.
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and Joseph Lieberman
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Dennis Kucinich of Ohio 1
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Bob Graham of Florida
John Kerry of Massachusetf
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7/9/03 12:50 p.m.
arrest, 4000 Pinfeather.
7/9/03 1:18 p.m.
arrest, 4000 Pinfeather.
7/9/03 1:30 p.m. Major acci
dent, 607 Texas. Airbag burns.
7/9/03 5:29 p.m.
Unauthorized use of motor vehi
cle, 410 Texas.
7/9/03 5:54 p.m. Major acci
dent, Harvey/Earl Rudder Frwy.
Complaint of pain.
7/9/03 8:20 p.m. Burglary of a
habitation, 601 Luther. Taken:
PlayStation2, games, DVDs.
7/9/03 10:58 p.m. Warrant
arrest, 300 Dominik.
7/10/03 12:15 a.m. Driving
while license suspended, 4090
SH 6 S. One arrest.
7/10/03 3:01 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 1101 Luther.
7/11/03 8:25 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 2611 Texas.
7/11/03 9:26 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 2611 Texas.
7/11/03 11:27 a.m. Major
accident, Louise/Wellborn.
Complaint of pain.
7/11/03 12:16 p.m. Warrant
arrest, 1116 Taurus Ave. Charge:
aggravated sexual assault of child.
7/11/03 12:23 p.m. Burglary
of a habitation, 723 Royal
Adelade. Taken: TV, VCR, DVD
player, DVDs, coins and clothing.
7/11/03 1:52 p.m. Major acci
dent, 411 Texas. Complaint of
pain.
7/11/03 1:58 p.m. Sexual
assault, 2611 Texas.
7/11/03 4:38 p.m. Warrant
arrest, 1540 SH 6.
7/11/03 5:21 p.m. Major acci
dent, Texas/Lincoln. Complaint
of back pain.
7/11/03 6:07 p.m. Burglary of
a habitation, 1516 Hawk Tree.
Taken: bracelet.
7/11/03 10:24 p.m.
Possession of drug parapherna
lia and minor in possession,
2701 Longmire. One arrest.
7/12/03 1:05 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 313 S. College.
7/12/03 2:22 a.m. Burlgary of
a vehicle, 134 Luther. Taken:
wallet and coins.
7/12/03 8:27 a.m. Burglary of
vehicle, 801 University. Taken:
digital camera taken.
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Complaint of neck pain.
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Complaint of pain.
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arrest.
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7/13/03 1:31 a.m.
arrest, 2701 Longmire.
7/13/03 3:45 a.m.
a vehicle, 2301 Eastmark.
face plate for stereo.
7/13/03 1:52 a.m.
a habitation, 4000 Universitf
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check, jewelry. Also: victim
injured with cut to right forearm
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