the drug scene

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wesleyan University
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<p>I love Wesleyan, but I'm a little worried about what I've heard about the drug scene. How widespread is drug use on campus? I don't mind it if it's recreational pot or something, but I definitely do mind it it's every day, at every party, and everyone does it. I'm kind of hoping it's not the latter. Anyone?</p>

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<p>One of the perks of a southern New England location (as opposed to the Frost Belt existence of a lot of other NESCAC colleges) is that the springs arrive a little earlier and the autumns linger a little longer. The opportunities to simply hang out on a hill (as opposed to engaging in frenetic athletic activity in order to stay warm - <a href=“Dave The Quidditch Snitch (CBS News) - YouTube”>Dave The Quidditch Snitch (CBS News) - YouTube) are a little more abundant so, a lot of stuff takes place out of doors at Wesleyan that would normally take place behind closed doors at Middlebury or Bowdoin. Hey, it only takes one person to light up a joint. Even Williams would pay a king’s ransom for a party venue like this (in fact, that’s just what they are doing): <a href=“http://wesleying.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo-1.jpg[/url]”>http://wesleying.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/photo-1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“Stetson-Sawyer Building Project, Williams College”>Stetson-Sawyer Building Project, Williams College;

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<p>But, in answer to the OP’s question, I think only a tiny minority of people smoke pot every day or do anything harder than the occasional psychedelic (mushrooms, acid, ecstacy). IMHO, alcohol has nudged past recreational drugs as the contraband of choice in recent years.</p>

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<p>there is no place in the world where everyone does drugs everyday, at every party. </p>

<p>except LA.</p>

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<p>This is the first study of its kind that I have ever seen conducted among a broad, representative swath of Wesleyan students and initially it supports what some people have suspected for a long time: that there are a large plurality, perhaps even a majority, of Wesleyan students who neither drink nor use pot on a regular basis. The question it leaves begging is whether and to what extent incoming frosh maintain their habits over the length of four years?
[New</a> Data Shows Low Drug Use ? The Wesleyan Argus](<a href=“http://wesleyanargus.com/2010/11/19/new-data-shows-low-drug-use/]New”>The Wesleyan Argus | New Data Shows Low Drug Use)</p>

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<p>I went there on an overnight, and from what I noticed, most people partake. Some people go hardcore and start their weekend on Wednesday, and others are more moderate. However, everyone reassured me that there will be no pressure to try anything. If you don’t want to be around drugs at all then Wesleyan definitely isn’t the place for you, but if you don’t mind being around others using them then it’ll be alright.</p>

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<p>Actually, it’s quite easy to avoid drugs entirely if you want. Not even close to everyone partakes. It’s all about who you surround yourself with. Wesleyan is large enough that they are many different types of crowds, and as the Argus article points out, a large percentage of Wesleyan students don’t do drugs. Your Mileage May Vary</p>

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<p>The drug scene is what you want it to be. Marijuana seems to be the recreational drug of choice, and sure people smoke it outside on Foss Hill in the good weather but generally people go out really late at night to Foss to smoke weed by a tree or whatever so you wouldn’t really encounter this.</p>

<p>Hard drugs? You can find them. You could do molly or get pills or coke if you asked around enough but you probably won’t see it at parties.</p>

<p>Alcohol is more prevalent than anything else.</p>

<p>With all of the above, there is NO pressure to do any. In fact, if you say you don’t want to people will respect that. You can fill a solo cup with water and still do beer chugs with people if you so desire. </p>

<p>Wesleyan is laid back and accepting and well drinking and drugs can be incorporated into recreation, they don’t dominate recreation. Before going to Wes I thought drugs would be a lot more prevalent, and really it seems to be just like every other school. I thought Wes would be like Bard in terms of the drug scene, but friends from Bard who visited told me Wes is nothing like that.</p>

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<p>A voice of sanity. It distresses me whenever I hear a young person say “everybody does this” or “everybody does that.” Not true at all. For students who think that way, the reality is, everybody YOU know does this or that, but that’s not everybody, and no one knows “everybody.”</p>

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<p>This is a bit of a bump, but I felt this was necessary to contribute. If you want to see what the drug scene is like, watch MGMT’s music video for Kids.</p>

<p>They went to Wesleyan.</p>

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<p>In that case, I shudder to think of what conclusions one must draw about the University of Wyoming.</p>

<p>Dick Cheney went to Wyoming.</p>

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<p>What that the University of Wyoming is conservative? Because it is.</p>

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<p>That’s true. I bet there are some accurate generalizations about a college that are manifest in the later actions of its various individual alumni activities. The thing about that is that you can cherry pick what you want from any given alum’s career and link it back to their alma mater contending that it’s informative of what the college experience is like. So, maybe with Cheney, I’m thinking that we now know that University of Wyoming students have a high rate of bypass surgery and their infirmary has heart surgeons on call.</p>

<p>Read Eric Asimov’s (Class of '79) column in the New York Times and one might conclude that Wesleyan parties normally involve decanting a 1974 Ch. Margaux at its peak (to go with the duck confit) and finish with a Tokaji Aszú 6 Puttonyos (2000) – assuming someone doesn’t first toss a Nebuchadnezzar of cheap Canadian ice wine out the window, prompting campus security to shut the whole thing down before the hosts even have a chance to put out the cheese plate.</p>

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<p>That actually happened when we toured Wes, except it was a desert wine they tossed out, and by the time security came everyone was done.</p>

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<p>not really.
dessert.</p>

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<p>P.S. I was being facetious.</p>