Reed = Heroin U

[Albert Hidel]

I remember so well my father grumbling and muttering as he wrote a $2,400 check to cover my tuition and fees for the 1955-56 school year. What would he think of this year's $45,000 figure? As an accountant, he would probably say, "Let's see: a 19-fold increase in 52 years. That suggests that when your great-grandson is grumbling and muttering about his son's fees in 2059, we can extrapolate that they will be 19 x $45,000 = $855,000 a year."? Plus another 20 bucks for a Hershey bar.

John Bear '59
El Cerrito, California

Reed Magazine, Summer 2007

John Bear's undergrad alma mater, whose unofficial slogan is "atheism, communism, free love," is under fire from law enforcement authorities for rampant drug use and distribution--that has caused two student deaths from heroin overdoses in the last two years.

An Intervention at Reed
April 26, 2010

The president of Reed College was summoned on Thursday to a meeting at a federal courthouse in Oregon where federal and state authorities told him that the college must shut down drug use and distribution at the college -- starting with an all-campus party that will take place this coming weekend.

While law enforcement officials periodically call on colleges to do more to combat drug use by their students, the meeting was highly unusual in that officials warned Colin Diver, the president, that Reed could face a cutoff of federal funds -- including student loans -- if it is not deemed to be taking "adequate steps to combat illegal drug activity." The meeting with Diver was attended by the U.S. attorney for Oregon, the chief of the narcotics section of the U.S. attorney's office, the county district attorney and the county's deputy D.A.

...The authorities told Diver that they believed drug dealers planned to attend Renn Fayre to sell to students, and that the college needed to take a more assertive stance against drugs. In the last two years, two Reed students have died of heroin overdoses. (Enrollment is about 1,400.)

Notice how the "cutoff federal funds" threat is used to get the communist atheists to do what the government wants. Not a far reach to see them using the same threat against conservative Christians for other government purposes, such as not employing enough perverts or not advocating the correct social justice bullshit.

But dogma aside, Bear seems to have something to say about rising tuition costs at Reed, but so far no comment on rising drug use and student deaths. You would think he would want to promote sales of his DEATH CARTEL board game. Can Dr. 4.0 In His Stats Classes extrapolate to tell us how many Reed students will die from heroin overdoses by 2059?? How many students at unaccredited schools died from heroin last year?