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<p>I agree that Reed has always had a freewheeling attitude. However, throughout its history, and particularly during the 60s, 70s and 80s when hippie Reed was at its peak, there have been students who have been able to stay away from substances. Pea, I think you mentioned you did stay away and I’ve heard of other people as well. So while there may have been a huge amount of drug users on campus, it was always possible to abstain if you wished to. Also, a distinction has to be made between casual drug use and addiction. What really needs to be tackled by Reed is identifying addicts and dealing with them on a personal basis-which is slowly happening.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry misunderstood what you tried to express, but I wasn’t aware that you didn’t know there were already substance free dorms. I think almost everyone who requests substance free accomodation does get it. It’s advertised on all housing information and forms, so I guess students are well aware that there is an option. In fact, it’s advertised as a great dorm, even for people who might indulge in “substance” consumption once in a while, but want a more tight-knit, quieter community of people to live with it. </p>
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<p>You went from using a parenthetical question mark to not using it in the next sentence that mentioned the nature of the drugs. It’s only a slight glitch, but sometimes people jump to conclusions really fast, and I was just making sure.</p>