landmine ([info]thought_dreams) wrote in [info]newcollege,
2005-08-08 21:57:00
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I have a second, perhaps equally taboo question to submit to the community. I realize that much of my curiosity will be quelled this Saturday (!!!), but I feel unable to contain myself, and so I ask: How prevalent is drug use on campus? I have heard accounts (certainly, they could have been wildly exaggerated) of New College students tripping for days, creating "drug cocktails" and smoking crack. This concerns me a bit. While I do hope to explore the occasional altered state, my primary interest is academic. I have experimented minimally with cannabis and mushrooms, and I appreciated the experience. Do many students find a safe, happy (weekends only!) medium for substance use at New College? Thanks in advance for your generosity of input. I cannot wait to meet you all!

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[info]candiedangel

August 9 2005, 02:31:39 UTC 6 years ago

absolutely & yes. you will have fun. and don't worry about the academic stuff, you will be pushed to your limits on a regular basis. enjoy!

[info]alongcamea

August 9 2005, 03:21:33 UTC 6 years ago

the first things i was told at New College were
1. Dont buy drugs from ringling students
2. You will kiss your same gender, if you havent already, by graduation
3. Watch out for Jeb (although hes gone and you dont need to worry about it)


but i was never offered drugs unless i was looking for them.

[info]worldbimperial

August 9 2005, 03:24:52 UTC 6 years ago

IS JEB STILL ON CAMPUS??????

[info]alongcamea

August 9 2005, 03:30:13 UTC 6 years ago

jesus no. or at least not to the best of my knowledge

[info]czar1514

August 9 2005, 05:04:00 UTC 6 years ago

who (was/is) Jeb?

[info]kerrickadrian

August 10 2005, 03:50:15 UTC 6 years ago

One of a long string of New College villains, which has been gradually dwindling to mere villeins. He's not around anymore. You will here Jeb stories, no doubt.

[info]mekriti

August 9 2005, 03:30:55 UTC 6 years ago

if you want to find a happy medium and keep academics first, you will. some people won't find that medium and will fail out. but that's probably because they're coming here thinking new college is a party school (what with the over-publicized drug use and OMG NO GRADES).

[info]arien

August 9 2005, 04:11:13 UTC 6 years ago

For the most part, those accounts are exaggerated. Some people do drugs, some don't. From what I understand, most of the "usual" drug use is weed and booze, with the heavier things (ecstasy and acid, mostly) kept to PCP, which happens three times a year. I haven't heard of anyone who's done coke or heroin, although I'm sure it happens sometimes. We've only had one overdose death in New College's entire history, and he was a visitor, not a student. But, honestly, unless you attend some kind of religious college, this stuff happens everywhere. College students have been experimenting with drugs and sex since the instituion was invented, basically.

At New College, no one is going to force you into any kind of drug use if you don't want to; I'm not a drinker or a smoker and I go to walls and get along fine. There's very little peer pressure to do anything. The cops are just there to watch out for your safety; they know the stuff that goes on on campus and they're not there to bust you. (Although a student got arrested for underage drinking last year, that's probably an isolated incident.) If you are going to use drugs, make sure you don't mix them with alcohol (huge no-no), and stay with friends and let them know what you've taken. Honestly, there's more of a problem with guests from town than students, as people aren't used to the total freedom and can't always control themselves.

[info]czar1514

August 9 2005, 04:57:53 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, I'm sure there's more drug action in religion-affiliated campuses.

[info]acidentphlosoph

August 10 2005, 18:52:27 UTC 6 years ago

How else could they stand it...

[info]patient_0

August 9 2005, 06:06:42 UTC 6 years ago

All the coke is consumed by thesis students in the Nat-Sci Division; the greedy bastards think it's, like, academic.

Adderal (sp?) insufflation is prevalent.

Around 60% of the campus smokes marijuana on occasion, and at least half of those do it more than four times a week.

Acid/shrooms are an occasional treat, unless one lives in Bdorm. God knows those dirty kids need something to make the filth look interesting.

X is the obnoxious drunk friend that crashes all your parties and then pisses off back to wherever it came from.

Ketamine and opium are known to make cameo appearances.

In my day, there were a total of 2 known junkies.

And, finally--those dearest to my own little black heart--the pillheads will claim they aren't drug users even when they are more down on percocet, valium, klonopin, and xanax than the stoniest of hippies.

[info]notforreal

August 10 2005, 01:57:48 UTC 6 years ago

someone got arrested for underage drinking?? haha. a certain cop who shall go nameless use to take my friends and i up to the shell station in his golf cart so we could buy beer when we were 18...

[info]arien

August 10 2005, 02:43:58 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, last year. It turned into this huge political incident with the students taking one side and the cops taking another. I'm not entirely sure what happened (honestly, I don't pay that much attention).

[info]earthfreak

August 11 2005, 04:44:36 UTC 6 years ago

I knew plenty of people who did coke. I take it you weren't here my first year. Drugs come in waves and in social circles. They just happened to rock 3rd court's boat like a tsunami fall of 2003.

Now that I think about it... where were all the hallucinogens last year??

[info]czar1514

August 9 2005, 05:03:01 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you for asking all those things that no one else wants to put their LJ username on. I hope your candid-ness is just as palpable in person. I'm David Banks, I'll see you saturday.

[info]odv2

August 9 2005, 05:40:38 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah. The rumors are mostly exaggerations. There are no more drugs here than there are at most campuses. Probably less. It's mostly just hard liquor and cannabis. Other than that a lot of new college students like to experiment with psychedelics. I've seen some coke and crack, but no heroin. I definitely stick to liquor and cannabis (most of the time) when I'm tired of sobriety.
Cheers!

[info]odv2

August 9 2005, 05:41:38 UTC 6 years ago

I wouldn't even say we have any more potheads than most college campuses. all lies!

[info]patient_0

August 9 2005, 06:09:45 UTC 6 years ago

We have the same per capita overall rates, but people--at least in my day--don't particularly hide it.

During my second year I lived with a good friend in the first double-balcony looking into Palm Court from 1st Court, and we routinely stood there smoking out of a neon-green bong during Town Meetings.

[info]yomintyfresh

August 9 2005, 16:22:33 UTC 6 years ago

At orientation leader training two years ago, we were told that our alcohol and tobacco consumption rates were about 2/3 of the national average. However, our consumption of cannabis is higher than the national average by about a fourth, and our consumption of hallucinogens is about four times the national average.

My first year (2002), we were also High Times's #2 stoner school in the country. If anything, I think it's because of the openness of cannabis use.

[info]gummybeartheory

August 9 2005, 07:11:07 UTC 6 years ago

watch out for roommates who don't respect you if you're not into drugs and they are. esp. in pei, if they start smoking pot or what have you in your presence, INSIDE your room...i lived in goldstein and one of my roommates was an asshole about it. i eventually had to move because he had no sense of respect for other people, even if it made them sick...

[info]earthfreak

August 11 2005, 04:41:17 UTC 6 years ago

Same goes for the opposite. Communicate with your roomies. Move out before there is a problem. My first roommate went so far as to involve the law. -No more details about that. Not here, not now.

Regardless, people change, though. Hell, she smokes considerably more pot than me now.

[info]complexdreamer

August 9 2005, 13:56:38 UTC 6 years ago

I've never had any issues, I don't drink or use any drugs. I've been offered weed and booze by people who didnt know, but in a nice non pushy way, and once people find out what you aren't into, they stop offering. I agree with gummy bear theory, just make roommate rules (such as no smoking inside) etc, and if you have probs with it talk to your RA. Regardless of the drug use, New College is a very academic school, and most poeple do balance their recreation with school work very successfully :o) .

[info]thryn

August 9 2005, 23:39:19 UTC 6 years ago

In my 5 years, doing drugs was pretty common, but one could find friends to match one's proclivity for such.

I lived in a house with a known dealer, where everyone but me smoked pot, but I was never pressured in any way. People would offer politely, and I always appreciated the offer, but only once in my five years actually smoked.

Same house was the home of the "disorientation party" for a few years, and some more intensive drug use happened at that shindig. But again -- it was a "try it if you want, don't if you don't" sort of thing.

[info]bob7026

August 21 2005, 06:45:02 UTC 6 years ago

I have lived in sarasota my whole life if you stay with the people on campus you will be alright but if you go into dirty ass sarasota you will defiently only meet junkies herion and crack are extremly common. I would say 80 percent of people i grew up with are addicted to herion or oxycontin. Just be careful that shit gets you quick.
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