HEC/News: IUP confronts 'disturbing' party reputation

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IUP confronts 'disturbing' party reputation
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA) May 1, 2006
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By Robin Acton
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"Joseph Schroeder remembers going to Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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to party when he was a teenager...
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"'IUP has always had a reputation as a party school...' Schroeder said.
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"'It's changing...but it's always going to be rowdy.'
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"And that change is being driven from the top down. Dr. Tony Atwater,
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IUP's president since February 2005, is one of the major catalysts for
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changing the university's party-school image.
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"Today, Atwater's Commission on Substance Abuse will release a report
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that is expected to contain two major themes - enforcement and education
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- as a solution to curb what he has called 'a disturbing trend' marked
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by 'a pattern of irresponsible behavior by students...'"
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