European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july a. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 a racing mind of its own after French motorcycle racer Raymond Roche fell off his soft cd Honda in Sun Day s belgian grand prix in spa fran co champs he motorcycle decided logo it alone. Us Independence did not last Long and ended with a lung against a track Fence. Roche was not injured in the mishap. 30% in College try cocaine study shows Washington up cocaine use on Ameri Ca s College campuses has remained fairly High Tor the past five years and 30 percent of All College students Sample the High priced drug before they graduate a new study disclosed monday. The study monitoring the  by the univer sity of Michigan s Institute Tor social research showed that while cocaine use is at a High level use of other drugs has dropped since 1980, and daily Mari Juana smoking has been Cut in half. The Survey of 1,100 College students found that roughly 30 percent of them had tried cocaine by the time they graduated. Cocaine use on Campus is receiving new attention following the re enl death of University of Maryland basketball Star Len Bias from cocaine. Clearly this nation s High school students and other Young adults still show a level of involvement with illicit drugs which is greater than can be found in any other industrialized nation in inc world the re searchers said. Even by historical standards in this country these Rales still remain extremely  or. Lloyd Johnston a director of the study said cocaine has been socially acceptable for some years now in some social circles and that needs to  by supporting cocaine use these people Are contributing to inc corruption of foreign governments and the suppression of entire Peoples he said there s a Trail of corruption and bloodshed All the Way to i hair front door about one in every six College students used cocaine in the 12 months before the Survey and one in every 14 used cocaine in just the month before inc Survey. More than half the students said cocaine was easy to obtain and half said they had some friends using it. The majority of students id percent disapproved of trying cocaine but obviously an appreciable minority Are willing to take the Chance the study said. The researchers said the statistics for College cocaine use remained virtually unchanged since 1980. However use of other drugs has dropped significantly on Campus. The proportion of College students using marijuana in the year before the Survey fell from 51 percent in 1980 to 41 percent. Active daily marijuana use fell by More than one half from 7.2 percent in 1980 to 3.1 percent in 1985. The study also found declines in the use of methaqualone or of alludes from 7.2 percent in 1980 to 1,4 percent in 1985 barbiturates from 2.9 percent to 1.3 percent and Ranqui Lizars from 6.9 percent to 3.s per cent during the same Lime period. The study found that College students were More Likely than their non College Peers to report heavy bouts of drinking Bui College students smoke less than their non College Peers. Law enforcement officials say cocaine is so Abun Dant that the Price of the drug has been dropping. In 1984, cocaine use in the United states Rose ii percent and kilogram prices ranged from 116,000 in South Florida to $30,000 in new York the University of Michigan reported last year that a greater number of High school seniors had also tried cocaine based on its annual Survey of 17,000 High school students. The study Marks the first Lime the University has reported is findings on College students the University has surveyed High school students and their drug habits since 1975, More College women than men smoke Survey says Detroit a nearly twice As Many College women As men smoke cigarettes daily an indication that tobacco companies Are succeeding in making lighting up a sign of Glamour and liberation according to a Federal study released monday the study also found that cigarette smoking is much less common among College students than other Young adults. The study was conducted for the National Institute on drug abuse by the University of Michigan s Institute for social research and grew out of a 10-year series of surveys of drug use by High school seniors. Aboul 1,100 College students were interviewed each year from 1980 to 1985. The results have a margin of error of less than 3 percentage Points. Among College women the daily smoking rate was 18 percent last year compared with 10 percent for men. It appears the tobacco Industry s expensive and Long term Effort to associate smoking with liberation and Success among women has paid off at least for the Industry said Lloyd d. Johnston a social psychologist and one of the study s directors. The payoff for those Young women who bought the message is quite another matter he said. The smoking patterns of College students Are set at a younger age he said. Most smoking habits Are established in adolescence he said. The sex difference Joes Back to High school. For some reason College bound females Are smoking More than College Bouna  an even sharper difference was found Between col lege students of both sexes and other Young adults. In 1985. 14 percent of College students Laid the smoked cigarettes daily compared with 31 percent of non students the study said. That difference too has its roots in High school Johnston said. Smoking tends to be highly related to grades and to school performance generally he said. The smarter kids Are less Likely to get hooked on  in their 1985 Survey of High school seniors the re searchers found that 20.7 percent of those not planning to attend College said they smoked at least half a pock of cigarettes a Day compared with 6.5 percent of the College bound. The College portion of the study ignored older Stu dents who make up about 15 percent of the Campus population but Johnston said that had Little effect on the results