The 80's are back at Penn

[Anonymous]

Remember Penn also has a history of journalists who make things up with drama and flair... https://newrepublic.com/article/120145/stephen-glass-new-republic-scandal-still-haunts-his-law-career and https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/jury-finds-reporter-rolling-stone-responsible-for-defaming-u-va-dean-with-gang-rape-story/2016/11/04/aaf407fa-a1e8-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html?utm_term=.fcf2ce04f827 -- Both by former Daily Pennsylvanian reporters...

-- signed a proud Penn alum from the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://34stfeatures.github.io/the-dividing-line/

Cocaine use rampant at penn in the article above to the stress penn kids have that's causing mental health issues and suicides - what's up with Penn these days?

Hasn't cocaine always been super common at wealthy colleges and in wealthy bubbles (Greek life) at public universities? Even after college you see so many "normal" people using cocaine. Even common among MD, JD and MBA students too.

[Anonymous]

Opioid use is epidemic. Pop your bubble, people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at Penn in the 1980s (graduated in 1990) - never saw nor heard about cocaine use except as a stereotype about Wharton graduates on Wall Street. It certainly wasn't prevalent on campus then, and I'm skeptical that this is the case now.

Fwiw the article linked is from the student newspaper's weekly magazine, which has always been run by upper middle class white kids desperate to make themselves edgy and hip. This article is a job application by an aspiring Rolling Stone journalist.

I graduated a few years before you. Plenty of coke at Castle and St A’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at Penn in the 1980s (graduated in 1990) - never saw nor heard about cocaine use except as a stereotype about Wharton graduates on Wall Street. It certainly wasn't prevalent on campus then, and I'm skeptical that this is the case now.

Fwiw the article linked is from the student newspaper's weekly magazine, which has always been run by upper middle class white kids desperate to make themselves edgy and hip. This article is a job application by an aspiring Rolling Stone journalist.

I graduated a few years before you. Plenty of coke at Castle and St A’s.

I graduated in the late 90s. Lots of coke at Tabard Castle and ZBT parties.

[Anonymous]

The most disturbing thing in these articles are that kids snort lines off their dirty-ass phones.

[Anonymous]

I graduated in 2013. Lots of coke available if you want it. Not everyone wanted it and it wasn’t a big deal if you didn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at Penn in the 1980s (graduated in 1990) - never saw nor heard about cocaine use except as a stereotype about Wharton graduates on Wall Street. It certainly wasn't prevalent on campus then, and I'm skeptical that this is the case now.

Fwiw the article linked is from the student newspaper's weekly magazine, which has always been run by upper middle class white kids desperate to make themselves edgy and hip. This article is a job application by an aspiring Rolling Stone journalist.

I graduated a few years before you. Plenty of coke at Castle and St A’s.

I graduated in the late 90s. Lots of coke at Tabard Castle and ZBT parties.

Another 1990 grad here: heard about all this but never saw it first hand. The DP & 34th Street, well those descriptions are spot on.

[Anonymous]

Also, apparently there is gambling going on at Rick's.

[Anonymous]

There are also kids using fake ids at smokes.

[Anonymous]

Word hard, play harder

[Anonymous]

I think the bigger story is all the prescription drug use. It is at epidemic levels.

[Anonymous]

Know many kids at Penn now and the OP is correct. Cocaine use is rampant.

[Anonymous]

Yes yes yes. Penn Penn Penn. Sniff sniff sniff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at Penn in the 1980s (graduated in 1990) - never saw nor heard about cocaine use except as a stereotype about Wharton graduates on Wall Street. It certainly wasn't prevalent on campus then, and I'm skeptical that this is the case now.

Fwiw the article linked is from the student newspaper's weekly magazine, which has always been run by upper middle class white kids desperate to make themselves edgy and hip. This article is a job application by an aspiring Rolling Stone journalist.

Me, too. Never saw it used.