Eleven At Wesleyan Hospitalized In MDMA Overdoses

Seems like some seriously convoluted wishful thinking on some parent’s part. If anything, this unfortunate incident has made the administration and campus safety and I would assume the student community (who saw their friends taken to the hospital in ambulances and/or arrested) more vigilant and reflective about drug use. I would assume there will be more efforts at education and drug free events. There may be some families who opt for schools like BYU over Wesleyan but it is unlikely that they would have been choosing between those two schools anyway. Yes, this incident got a lot of national press but the number of kids who were hospitalized is dwarfed by the number of kids who are taken to the ER for alcohol poisoning from virtually every college and university in the US on an annual basis. A friend whose daughter goes to Stanford said that there were 30 kids in the ER by the end of September. So most rational and/or critically thinking parents are aware that there is drug and alcohol use/abuse on every campus and talking to your kids about making safe choices is imperative wherever they go.