<p>Proudamerican.</p>
<p>Not only am I a Harvard parent, but I’ve lived in Cambridge for nearly forty years (save for 6 years spent elsewhere), not a million miles from the Harvard campus. I also went to college in the Boston-area in the 60s, when drug use was far more prevalent than it is today. I’m not naive about the extent of drug use either at Harvard or elsewhere. Nor do I think that Ivy League students are the only students with family connections. Families don’t have to be loaded with money to be able to put pressure on the local authorities.</p>
<p>The police do conduct drug busts at Harvard and other schools, but usually when dealing is involved, not just use. At SDSU, that seems to have been the case. There were dealers and buyers involved, and it involved not only pot but cocaine. At Northeastern, the students were yelling out of open windows in the hearing of a passing cop that they had drug for sale. This is the sort of situation that gets students busted, whether at Harvard, SDSU or Northeastern.</p>
<p>Re post 11, it does explain it. And if drug overdoses happened at HYPS, I bet there would be investigations there, too, family connections or not.</p>