The opening of this year’s school year at area colleges and universities hasn’t been without its wrinkles.

After minor fires at and Georgetown and Howard, a pesky blogger annoying the president of American U., it seemed things were calmly under way.

Not so – now that move-in is complete, students seem to be moving on to other activities. Last weekend, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student died from an alcohol overdose after his friends carried him home from the bar and placed him on his side to “sleep it off.” Meanwhile, elsewhere alcohol is getting harder to find: the Wisconsin Avenue Safeway had their liquor application rejected, and liquor stores in Prince George’s county would close at midnight under a new proposal.

In College Park, health counselors are seeing more anorexia and bulimia – among men. A campus health official explains: “Even looking at GI Joe toys in the 1970s, their physique was very normal … In the 2000s, the physique looks enormously buff. Especially college-age men feel they need to look like that.”