Time to make those suspensions permanent, and send a message students might understand better.
All of them were neuroscience majors.
http://news.yahoo.com/wesleyan-students-due-court-party-drug-charges-135738269.html
I’ll admit that this part mad me chuckle
ETA: weird. Link seems to link to an older version of the article. I swear quote is in the one I read.
This is just such a tragedy. I am praying that student survives. If paramedics had arrived a few minutes later there probably would have been no hope.
The question you can ask on a college tour is what is the school’s policy for drug infractions. Some schools have zero tolerance and expel students for possession of illegal substances, Others try to draw distinctions between possession versus intention to distribute, subjecting only the latter to expulsion.
Wesleyan is unfortunately extremely accommodative with regard to drug use, just Google Wesfest or 4/20 again Wesleyan tolerates it
I’m not in these circles, but my understanding is that OCs don’t have the stigma that heroin does. Heroin is cheaper, so people get addicted to OCs then switch to heroin when they can’t afford OCs anymore.
Rama is exhibiting a lot a “attitude” in that mug shot.
Rama is a Syrian national. Methinks she (he?–I’m honestly not sure; not that it matters) might not want to get deported. Worst case scenario–serves time in prison and is then deported back to Syria, a place I don’t think many Syrians living in the US want to return to right now.
According to Newsweek, Kramer
Jonri, was the other version also where you saw they were neuroscience majors and that Rama was from Syria? Those details are not in the linked article, which is odd, since they do list the country of origin for Lonergan. The two internationals have a much higher bail to post than the two Americans. Since the article says prescription drugs were found in the rooms of all three, could it be that the flight risk was the difference in the bail required rather than the quantity found? Was the other kid who already posted his bail also only charged with possession? Someone must have claimed these 4 were responsible for distribution or the police would not have searched their rooms, right? Not a lawyer, but some of you are I think?
I can’t get the link to work, even though I am cutting and pasting it.
However, other sources also say that Rama is a Syrian national and that they were all neuroscience majors.
The local Patch says the 3 arraigned today were neuroscience majors:
Well, if they end up incarcerated, that is a pretty good suspension too. But I agree, Xiggi. This stuff is dangerous, and the parents who grew up in the '60’s and '70’s smoking some weed have no idea how potent and dangerous these modern drugs can be. Literally one and done for some poor kids.
I didn’t say “kids” or “students”. I meant that in general there are many people addicted to oxycontin and other pain pills - many legitimately were prescribed them for pain - and there has been a serious crackdown on those such that many people can no longer get them, even with a valid prescription. So they get heroin instead, as it is cheap and accessible.
More: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/29/health/gupta-unintended-consequences/
^ though certainly kids and students can become addicted to pain pills as well. And to heroin. Or both.
Okay, trying again.
This is a portion of the article I can read. I’ll cut and paste the link again.Here is the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/wesleyan-students-due-court-party-drug-charges-135738269.html
Since it seems to be working, I’ve shortened the quote. However, Ive left it longer than usual because the link may still have problems.
Reposting link, just in case http://news.yahoo.com/wesleyan-students-due-court-party-drug-charges-135738269.html
While I’m not sympathetic, I can only shake my head at Lonergan’s stupidity if that text message from him is legit.
Obviously, Wesleyan’s screening process, when it comes to picking students to attend the school, is a little lacking. 
Are they full pay by any chance?
One of the four students arrested posted $175,000 bail, so yes I suppose he probably was full pay, but to @dstark point, it does make you wonder that perhaps the campus environment encourages this behaviour, when we visited campus last year for WesFest it definitely put us completely off ds attending.
And, just how is Wesleyan - or, any college for that matter - supposed to do that? Screen out all musicians, all neuroscience majors? What’s the profile for someone who is likely to abuse designer drugs? It’s been 13 years since publication of “The Gatekeepers” and people on CC still criticize Wesleyan for rejecting an applicant who wrote about eating a hash brownie as part of her admissions essay!
Did that applicant apply to Reed?
I didn’t read The Gatekeepers, but Reed has had a reputation of attracting those who aren’t adverse to chemical substances. More than is warranted actually, IMO.
I actually was TIC, but since students who do not file FAFSA do not have to answer if they have had drug convictions, you may have some students that * have had * past legal issues, but they aren’t asking for need based aid.