Why The Huffington Post Is Going On A Sleep Tour On College Campuses

Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, is starting a somewhat unusual book tour Friday, traveling to college campuses around the country to talk about what students are doing in their dorms. Specifically, she wants to talk about sleep.  As Huffington promotes her new book, The Sleep Revolution, she is joining The Huffington Post’s Sleep Revolution College Tour. The tour rolls onto 16 campuses throughout April and into May, just as students prepare for final exams, a time when sleep may seem like the least of their worries.  Huffington is focusing on colleges because too many college students believe they must sacrifice sleep "if they want to do well academically and have a great social life," she said in a recent column. "So colleges have in many ways become the boiler room of our burnout culture, with disastrous consequences for our students’ physical and mental health. The method (or cheat code) they use is the one the rest of us use: feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day, we look for something to cut," Huffington wrote. "And sleep is an easy target. In fact, up against this unforgiving definition of success, sleep doesn’t stand a chance. Indeed, in college life, going without sleep is considered a badge of honor." She's not wrong. Many college students have affirmed this belief holds true. At some campuses, students brag about how little sleep they get. "At my school, it can seem like a com...
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