In recent months, a rash of cases involving students and others who ended up hospitals after drinking Four Loko and other beverages that blend caffeine with alcohol have alarmed college and health officials nationwide.
Mixing alcohol and caffeine is hardly a new concept, but a rash of cases involving students and others who landed at hospitals after drinking beverages that combine the two in a single large can has alarmed college and health officials around the country.
When Mr. Rotunno became principal, he opened virtually all the student bathrooms, many of which had been bolted shut after a rash of arson and flooding, prompting some students to urinate in the stairwells.
And this is why I find Colorado College's response so outrageous: Edmonds is using the rash of school shootings to justify punishing students who were completely kidding.
Then, starting in 1996 when a high school student named Barry Loukaitis in Moses Lake, Wash., went into a math class and killed three fellow students, there was a rash of school shootings.
This year there have been six suicides at Cornell, a record year and, with the national average reaching 7.29 suicides per 100,000 students in America, the rash of suicides there is a tragic statistical outlier.
In October 2007, a 28-year-old man (student) sought care for a rash of 6 months' duration and generalized joint pains of a few days' duration.
That same year, Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School Distoict had to fight back after a controversial Rolling Stone article drew attention to its treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in the wake of a rash of teen suicides in the region.
The storyteller, Mitchell Greenberg, lightly modulates his narrative voices to play various students at an exclusive prep school troubled by a rash of suicides.
The rash of arsons recalled a similar episode in Alabama in February 2006, when three college students from the Birmingham suburbs burned down nine churches over two nights.
