College Students Addicted to the Internet GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., Oct. 21 - A few years Stacie Kawaguchi started tinkering with the Internet and she noticed an international pen-pal site. At the time a Kansas University graduate student in botany, Kawaguchi "met" folks from Canada, France, Japan, and Brazil. Through the internet, she even met her eventual fiancé, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering at Virginia Tech University. "When you first start, you really get into it," …showed first 75 words of 217 total…

…showed last 75 words of 217 total…after night, even when she was gone for weeks at a time. "Basically, their whole world revolved around being there." Jonathon Kandell, assistant director of the counseling center at the University of Maryland, has found that college students--especially those in the 18-22 age range--are quite susceptible to an Internet obsession. The search for identity, the need for intimate relationships and the need for control often play a significant role in this potentially unhealthy behavior, Kan