Wes alum here who didn't like the drugs. The academics are great actually - excellent profs with small classes (most classes under twenty, my "survey" classes were around 30 to 40). The kids are smart, work hard, intellectual, and for the most part take their studies seriously. But yeah, a lot of drugs. The majority didn't do drugs regularly but there was a significant minority who did and that clouded up the air for the rest of us.

I just think if a kid want so breathe drug free air, she should be the priority, not the pot smoker....no idea if things have changed.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to wesleyan in the 90s.

I had asthma and was forced to breathe in secondhand pot smoke 24-7 (living on campus is required). I complained to Res Life, Public Safety, the infirmary where I wound up spending some nights due to the pot smoke - and no one cared. The administration blatantly allowed people to smoke pot in the dorms. They sided with the pot smokers, not me.

Doesn't surprise me, Wesleyan has been kind of hippie/crunchy since at least the 70s, so you get administrators and alumni who were druggies back in the day, and who don't want to interfere with the next generation of users.

Not unique to Wesleyan but the liberal politics and open drug use there is what tends to distinguish it from Amherst and Williams. You don't go there for a cuter town or better academics.

Poster don't disagree with your commentary but then why is Wesleyan so highly rated and so difficult to get in? Is the competition that fierce amongst the druggies???? Doesn't seem to be logical.

Anonymous wrote:I went to wesleyan in the 90s.

I had asthma and was forced to breathe in secondhand pot smoke 24-7 (living on campus is required). I complained to Res Life, Public Safety, the infirmary where I wound up spending some nights due to the pot smoke - and no one cared. The administration blatantly allowed people to smoke pot in the dorms. They sided with the pot smokers, not me.

Doesn't surprise me, Wesleyan has been kind of hippie/crunchy since at least the 70s, so you get administrators and alumni who were druggies back in the day, and who don't want to interfere with the next generation of users.

Not unique to Wesleyan but the liberal politics and open drug use there is what tends to distinguish it from Amherst and Williams. You don't go there for a cuter town or better academics.

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Anonymous wrote:Commentary on yahoo from people that live near the University say it is very liberal and drugs are prevalent

Many, many colleges are very liberal and drugs and alcohol are prevalent at almost all. Not minimizing what happened here, its very concerning, but you would be shocked at the number of students who are hospitalized and die from alcohol poisoning every year.

+1 drugs and especially alcohol use are out of control at most colleges. We as a society need to stop accepting this as some right of passage because it causes a lot of harm from overdoses to sexual assault.

I went to wesleyan in the 90s.

I had asthma and was forced to breathe in secondhand pot smoke 24-7 (living on campus is required). I complained to Res Life, Public Safety, the infirmary where I wound up spending some nights due to the pot smoke - and no one cared. The administration blatantly allowed people to smoke pot in the dorms. They sided with the pot smokers, not me.

MMDA is very dangerous. Somehow this message is not getting through to kids, though the dangers have been known for years.

I know someone who was an intern at one of the major university hospital who OD'ed 15 years ago on MMDA. Her parents hovered over her for two days while she was in a coma. Luckily she pulled through.

Anonymous wrote:Commentary on yahoo from people that live near the University say it is very liberal and drugs are prevalent

Many, many colleges are very liberal and drugs and alcohol are prevalent at almost all. Not minimizing what happened here, its very concerning, but you would be shocked at the number of students who are hospitalized and die from alcohol poisoning every year.

Commentary on yahoo from people that live near the University say it is very liberal and drugs are prevalent

One of the students arrests is from Bethesda.

It might be a good year to apply to Wesleyan.

So sad that 2 are in critical condition...very scary.

Off rule if the link is back-up for the subject of the post. but what ever.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why the earlier post about this was taken down. It's in the Washington Post today and it's a very scary issue for very parent who has kids in college

If it was just a link in the text, it would be deleted. Text must contain some commentary and not just bare links.

I wish college kids realized that life is actually better without drugs and alcohol. I hope these students are ok.

I don't know why the earlier post about this was taken down. It's in the Washington Post today and it's a very scary issue for very parent who has kids in college