<p>^Reed maybe one of your favourite colleges, but it does seem like you ignore what it’s all about, and if what you’re suggesting is put into practice, Reed as a college would not exist. Making all dorms substance free is a ridiculous way to prevent drug use (and I say this as someone who has no history with drugs and might end up staying in a substance free dorm), in any case. It’s like the legality of drugs and criminality of drug use-does it make drugs any less available? Like I said, drugs exist on all campuses, whether we’d like to admit it or not, and to what extent can college authorities police students? You’re not dealing with five year old kids here whom you try to discipline. Besides, what does it suggest if drugs are otherwise used on campus, but a college instructs students to hide them for prospective students? That’s hypocrisy and potentially more harmful to the student than having those drugs in view. Reed lives by the “Honor Principle”, and we respect each individual’s right. I doubt you’ll find anyone at Reed who’ll say they’ve been forced to consume drugs. Everyone at Reed who does drugs is doing it of their own volition-honestly curbing that freedom is going to do more harm than good. Pea’s information is flimsy; it’s going to become a case of Chinese Whispers as to what exactly those drugs lying in the refrigerator were. Whatever the case may be (hard or not), I don’t think Reed’s “drug problem” is significantly worse than most colleges in America. I had a friend who had a cokehead as a roommate his freshman year at USC, yet seemingly Reed is the only bastion of hard drugs left in America-which I find ludicrous. You can be at the most cloistered college in the world and still get high; perhaps it would be even more exciting than doing drugs at a college like Reed.</p>
<p>PS. You might want to reconsider concluding they were hard drugs. No one knows and no one should speculate as if this is some gossip mill.</p>