<p>I'm just trying to get a sense for what the environment that you don't see on a tour is like. First I want to say that while I personally don't have much experience with the harder stuff, I have been exposed to a lot of it, so don't try to sugar coat it. I just want to get a sense for what kind of drugs are on campus, and how prevalent they are. Also, if you're a WUSTL student answering, can you talk about your view point briefly? ex. "first year student who goes to parties once or twice a week" ect. Thanks</p>
<p>It’s not uncommon for professors to do lines of coke while lecturing.</p>
<p>If this is an attempt at humor, I don’t think it is very funny and it is potentially very harmful to a great school.</p>
<p>Nope, no joke. In fact, them intro level chem labs are actually devoted to manufacturing methamphetamine…</p>
<p>Of course it’s a joke, lighten up. If someone actually believes it, they may not be the type of student that WUSTL is looking for anyways…</p>
<p>I don’t have any firsthand information about the drug scene at Wash U, but I recently heard a reliable story about a kid living on-campus who was arrested by campus police for dealing drugs from his dorm room. The police raided his room. The investigation led to one of the fraternities, who got in trouble with their national office. I have no idea how typical this is.</p>
<p>Let’s stay away from hearsay on a thread like this. I think if the OP is genuinely interested, private messages may be more appropriate.</p>
<p>Although this is hearsay to some extent, my freshman son says that although alcohol use is very very common, he has not seen or heard of hard drug use and the school has strict policies concerning it. That is not to say it does not exist, but I wanted to negate any impression that may exist on this thread that hard drug use may be widespread at the school.</p>
<p>All jokes aside, the alcohol policy is very lax because TAs treat residents like adults. However, I wouldn’t say that alcohol use on campus is a problem–at least not more so than at any other school. As for drugs, the policy is much stricter. I’m pretty sure the policy is that you get kicked out of ResLife for your first drug incident. This is especially significant for freshmen because they are required to live on campus through ResLife. Therefore, if you get kicked out you cannot be enrolled as a student at Wash U.</p>
<p>The availability/prevalence of drugs is the same here as at any other school: you can find them if you look for them but the overwhelming majority of people choose not to partake.</p>
<p>Doodie’s story while true, is about four years old by now. There really isn’t much drug use though</p>
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<p>No. Considering there was a drug issue on my freshman floor, and the kid didn’t get kicked out, it’s not a one-time-only (at least not in all cases).</p>
<p>Furthermore, if you’re kicked out of the dorms as a freshman you are not automatically un-enrolled as a student because of being kicked out of the dorms. There are exceptions made all the time to the ResLife mandatory-on-campus policy all the time. However, it should be noted that if you’ve been kicked out of the dorms, there’s a good chance you’ve been suspended for the same issue anyway. </p>
<p>OP- I’ll stop the side stepping most seem to be doing. Alcohol is obviously very common. Weed is too (At least half of my freshman floor smoked). Anything harder than that certainly exists, but isn’t nearly as prevalent. </p>
<p>Side note: I once saw a guy doing a line of coke at a fraternity formal… went ‘o_O?’ and left that room because I felt incredibly uncomfortable.</p>
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I believe this happened my freshman year? This sounds exactly like what happened to SAMmy, when they lost their house.</p>
<p>I laughed out loud at RaVNzCRoFT’s first comment…though I had to copy-paste the name. -_-</p>
<p>Not sure if this is a serious question or ■■■■■, but I’ll answer it with the <em>limited</em> amount of knowledge at my disposal. </p>
<p>Alcohol: I’d say that a decent majority (60% maybe) of students drink on a weekly basis. There is a good contingent of people who just don’t drink and then a smaller percentage of people that drink only on special occasions (WILD, hyped-up frat parties, etc). </p>
<p>Tobacco: Not very many people smoke cigs, especially since the smoking ban on campus was enacted a couple years ago. I notice since the ban, much less people smoke near Olin library, but there are more people smoking on Forsyth. In my experience, food personnel and professors smoke more often than students.</p>
<p>Marijuana: Surprisingly, a LOT more people than you’d think smoke weed. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to a frat party and seen classmates/friends that I would never expect to smoke doing it. It’s like a “Wow…really?” moment. Not being judgmental, as I am well aware that pot is a lot safer than alc.</p>
<p>Anything harder than those listed above: Let’s just put it this way: you’d have to be actively seeking it out to find it. Nobody is going to try to sell you cocaine, ecstasy, etc. The vast majority of students will never see these illegal substances while at WashU.</p>