This Bay Area NBC-affiliate seems just a little too surprised by the prevalence of keg stand vids on YouTube.

The media loves wayward youth stories which especially appeal to the middle-aged news-watching base. And considering the high profile of crazy college kids in the news lately, from massive drug busts to tragic drunken deaths, it's no wonder this current round of backlash is beginning. 

I'm just sorry NBC won't let me embed the glorious video. You're going to have to click on the link to hear the reporter lisp about "College Partying 101, the unofficial course on every campus." (You know if they put that on the brochures they'd get way more applicants!)

Nearly half of full-time college students use drugs or binge drink at least once a month, a big increase over the numbers from 1993. And while some adults, like Donald Harward, former president of Bates College, think this "substance abuse" is "a symptom of students' disengagement from academic and civil life on campus," students are arguably way more involved in volunteer work and political action today than they were 12 years ago. At least now the 18-24 set is putting on their sunglasses in the morning and still hauling their hungover asses down to the polls to vote.

But of course this is the problem with these party stories. Sanctimonious olds use those d-bags at San Diego State as yet another excuse to write off young people and their accomplishments.

That's not to say there aren't some problems. Binge drinking has become such a menace to youth that the World Health Organization is scheming up a new way to fight this scourge. But featuring an interview with a student who actually suggests that parents call their 20-somethings every day and harass them about their weekend plans isn't exactly the most objective and responsible way to report this story.