Culture and such

circuitrider
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:24:59 +0000

@robbietoy‌ - If you think you are going to get away from drug use by attending Pitzer, you are sadly mistaken. According to the 5C newspaper article quoted below, there were 39 drug related referrals from Pitzer to the campus authorities in 2013. That’s for a college community approximately one third the size of Wesleyan, meaning, that on a per capita basis the rate of occurrence was nearly the same.

Moreover, the Pitzer referrals were strictly as a result of ambient complaints of suspicious activity. It certainly appears as if the 5C colleges have a far more passive approach toward drug enforcement than Wesleyan:

Austin Henderson PO[mona] '14 said that he believed that RAs should only enforce policy if there is a complaint. "I think the policy is good to exist there for those that don’t want to live in a smoking environment, but I take the general view of drug policy that no harm should equal no penalty,” Henderson said.