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Washington, D.C. — Concerned Women for America (CWA) pleads with young women across the country to take caution and safety measures as they enter the spring break season. The American Medical Association released a study which says that 83 percent of college women admit that spring break involves increased consumption of alcohol, and 74 percent said the break is a time to indulge in sexual activity. “The danger of spring break is that students have an attitude that ‘anything goes’,” said Dr. Janice Crouse, CWA’s Senior Fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute. “The idea that this vacation has no...

Girls Gone Wild? Spring Breakers Admit More Sex, Drinking AMA Warns Women Of Health RisksPOSTED: 9:01 am EST March 8, 2006 CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association is warning girls not to go wild during spring break. All but confirming what goes on in those "Girls Gone Wild" videos, 83 percent of college women and graduates surveyed by the AMA said spring break involves heavier-than-usual drinking, and 74 percent said the break results in increased sexual activity. The women's answers were based both on firsthand experience and the experiences of friends and acquaintances. Sizable numbers reported getting sick from drinking,...

The American Medical Association is warning girls not to go wild during spring break. All but confirming what goes on in those "Girls Gone Wild" videos, 83 percent of college women and graduates surveyed by the AMA said spring break involves heavier-than-usual drinking, and 74 percent said the break results in increased sexual activity. The women's answers were based both on firsthand experience and the experiences of friends and acquaintances. Sizable numbers reported getting sick from drinking, and blacking out and engaging in unprotected sex or sex with more than one partner, activities that increase their risks for sexually transmitted...

MADISON, Wis. -- Spring break starts Friday for many college students across the country, including University of Wisconsin-Madison students, reported WISC-TV. While many students will head for higher temperatures and sunshine, many others will head to work. Brittany Bethel and her friends have dreamed of spring break in Cancun. But after seeing the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina last year, she and others are packing up their bags and heading to New Orleans to lend a helping hand. "We're going to be working through the Crescent House, which is a house for domestically abused women and children," said Bethel. "We're...

Thousands Roar Into Daytona Beach for Bike Week 3/4/2006 9am report By First Coast News Staff DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- The annual pilgrimage to "motorcycle mecca" is underway. Thousands of bikers are roaring into Daytona Beach for Bike Week. The city is geared up and vendors are set up along Main Street. More than 300,000 motorcycle riders are expected to roll through town.

State Dept. Warns Students Of Spring Break PerilsPOSTED: 8:17 am EST March 4, 2006 STATE DEPARTMENT -- College students gearing up for spring break are being warned about getting into trouble -- not by their parents, but by the State Department. In its annual warning for student travelers, the department said most kids will have a fun time, but others will experience "a nightmare" if they don't stay on their toes. Besides the usual warnings about drugs and alcohol, the statement said students have to be fully aware of laws where they're visiting. The department warned students that conduct that...

Hi, My name is Greg and I am 19 years old. Just signed up for so information. I think of myself as a concervative.I am a freshmen in College up here in Mass. and whoud lilke some advice on my spring break trip. This is going to be my frist time going to a place where bad things can happen and as a young conservative I need help so I dont fall into temptations when I go down to Daytona. I understand that a lot of drinking goes on down and there and like a good conservative I have only...

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (AP) - Making out with palm trees. Mistaking police cars for taxi cabs. Rolling a stolen restaurant barbecue down the road, flames shooting up from the chicken cooking on the grill. Such spring break hijinks have earned municipal Judge David Colwell's morning-after docket the reputation as one of the best shows in town. Colwell said friends suggested that the judge begin recording some of the more memorable anecdotes. Over nine years, he has collected these into a self-published, 98-page tome, "Spring Break: A Judge's View from the Bench" being sold at local bookstores. Although Colwell recounts some...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - About 700 volunteers joined police, soldiers and FBI agents on Monday, combing scrubland and beaches on Aruba's southeastern tip in an unprecedented search for an Alabama teenager who vanished a week ago on a trip to the Dutch Caribbean island. Aruba's government let 4,000 civil servants off work early at 2 p.m. to hunt for Natalee Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Ala. The expanded search began a day after police charged two men in her disappearance. The honors student vanished May 30 while on a five-day trip with more than 100 classmates celebrating their high school...

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Five people were taken to local hospitals for injuries SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, March 16, 2005 — A large, shapeless mound of sand was all that was left Tuesday evening from a sand sculpture of Jesus that might have been the cause of a large beach disturbance. Although the cause of a beach brawl reportedly involving hundreds of Spring Breakers remained in dispute Tuesday night, police said five people were taken to local hospitals for injuries they had received. Another six people were treated and released at the scene. South Padre Island Police Chief Robert Rodriguez said the disturbance started shortly...

Spring Breakers are not easily offended, but even they will admit some behavior crosses the line. "We saw two people actually having sex in the sand," said Nat Gale from Hartford, Conn. "Their friends were all around them. Everyone was trying not to look but they were looking." Because nobody complained to authorities, it's questionable whether the couple could have been convicted of committing a lewd and lascivious act. Florida courts have ruled that an unsuspecting member of the public must be offended before somebody can be convicted of the crime. State Sen. Mike Fasano and State Rep. John Legg,...

Leaders concerned image of violence will hurt Spring Break tourism — City leaders from Matamoros, Brownsville and South Padre Island said Thursday they will ask the U.S. State Department to lift or soften its alert for Americans traveling along Mexico’s northern border. With at least 150,000 Spring Breakers expected to arrive here next month, the mayors of each city said they are concerned the alert will reduce the tourist flow into Mexico. “We all agreed that is something we will pursue,” SPI Mayor Bob Pinkerton said of submitting a request to the State Department. “I know a lot of kids...

Lap Dances,Drugs and alcohol LAKEWOOD, Colo. (News 4) News 4 has learned of disciplinary action against baseball players and coaches at Bear Creek High School. The action came after players went to a strip club during a spring break trip. While in Arizona for a baseball tournament, some players and coaches drove south to Mexico. That side trip, and the activities in Mexico, led to a number of Jefferson County School District violations. The school District is now sharing all the details. They include talk of strippers, lap dances and drugs and alcohol. And in the end, no one is...

Teen visiting for Spring Break claims she was turned into sex slave ABC13 Eyewitness News (3/24/04 - HOUSTON) — A 15-year-old girl from Minnesota probably regrets ever coming to Houston after she was allegedly turned into a sex slave by strangers. She's hospitalized after going missing for three days. The girl went to an after-hours dance club on Saturday night, but when her friends were ready to go, she was gone. She finally called relatives Tuesday from a southwest Houston apartment. Investigators think someone slipped her a rape drug because she doesn't remember much from the time she was...

Student stabbed to death during spring break trip BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A college student was stabbed to death early Saturday while on spring break at South Padre Island. David Garcia, 23, a kinesiology student from Alamo, separated from friends about 4 a.m. and met a man who stabbed him in the neck, said Cameron County Chief Park Ranger Gus Reyna. Garcia was taken by ambulance about 25 miles to Brownsville's Columbia Valley Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, the Brownsville Herald reported in today's editions. Police were looking for a heavyset man wearing a white muscle T-shirt under...

No Respect: Campaign to tame Spring Break hits bump Hundreds of promotional 'respect' posters go missing By ANDREW LYONS Staff Writer Last update: 16 March 2004 DAYTONA BEACH -- Talk about no respect. The city's campaign to curb drunken lawlessness during Spring Break suffered a sucker punch early Monday. A thief in the night swiped 300 trash can sleeves emblazoned with the city's new catch phrase: "It's all about respect." The theft of the trash can cozies was committed in the core tourist district, historically where college kids converge to drink and often cause trouble. But the plot thickens as...

SPRING BREAK: KERRY RETREATS TO HIS SUN VALLEY MANSION FOR 5-DAY LUXURY UNWIND Dem candidate-in-waiting John Kerry is set for a 5-day luxury break at his Sun Valley, Idaho compound after a week riddled with gaffes, missteps and slippage in the polls. Gorgeous, 19.5 rooms at 7,749 square-feet, with a market value of $4.9 million [property taxes of more than $30,000 annually], Kerry's Idaho vacation getaway will be the setting of a Spring Break regroup and unwind, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. Private. Kerry is looking forward to enjoying the property, including the grounds, which have been freshly landscaped with...

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's halftime stunt has focused public attention on MTV, the network that sponsored the halftime show at this year's Super Bowl. MTV's raunchy videos, however, are only a fraction of the network's attempt to influence our children, both on cable TV and on the Internet. As Focus on the Family's Plugged In magazine pointed out, MTV wields a stranglehold on American youth culture, a grip the network uses shamelessly to promote its own political and sexual agenda. MTV's annual spring break, for instance, slips deeper into an ever-wilder celebration of hedonism, drunkenness and public nudity; MTV...

"Girls Gone Wild" producer Joe Francis is now facing 22 criminal charges, including filming underage girls involved in sexual activity. Francis, 30, was arraigned Thursday in Bay County Circuit Court with racketeering and conspiracy to engage in racketeering activity, which are both first-degree felonies which carry up the 30 years in prison. He also faces three counts of promoting the sexual performance of children; four counts of conspiracy to promote the sexual performance of children; two counts of using children in sexual performances; four counts of procuring persons younger than 18 for prostitution; two counts of conspiring to procure persons...