Word: brookes
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...thoughts of a university president these days are no longer limited to such lofty matters as improving the curriculum or such necessary deeds as raising funds. Not with students and drugs to worry about. Last week President John Toll of S.U.N.Y.'s Stony Brook campus ruefully told a joint New York legislative committee on crime that "I've probably talked more about this than any other single topic since I've been president...
...sure, Toll probably has a bigger problem than most campus presidents. At a hearing of the committee-convened in the wake of the predawn arrest at Stony Brook last month of 38 people who were charged with sale or possession of drugs-he admitted that perhaps 20% of his 5,200 students have used drugs, mostly marijuana. Toll assured the committee that "we cannot tolerate illegal activities," warned that students involved in the arrests can expect expulsion...
Gestapo Tactics. To Stony Brook officials, who had not been advised that the raid was planned, it looked like something of a grandstand operation. Not only was there a certain amount of melodrama in the dawn crackdown, but nearly a dozen newsmen had been briefed by the cops beforehand and had been given rides to the scene in police cars. Stony Brook Associate Dean Donald M. Bybee called it "a press field day," and a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union quickly protested the pretrial publicity. Students complained of "Gestapo tactics," pro tested that the ill-timed raid...
Among other things, the flurry over the Stony Brook raid dramatized the fact that U.S. campuses and law-enforcement officials are not of like minds regarding pot. Most students, as well as many professors, do not believe that smoking marijuana is or should be a criminal offense. Even if they privately share their students' views, college officials acknowledge their obligation to help enforce existing laws-although Long Island police were notably angered by Stony Brook's refusal to let the agents formally enroll as students...
Double Jeopardy. Stony Brook officials insist that they were well aware of the pot problem all along, although they deny estimates that more than half of the students have taken marijuana at one time or another. The school has distributed medical articles about drug dangers to all students, installed anti-pot posters in campus buildings, set up an advisory committee to deal with the problem. In the wake of the arrests, President John Toll announced that he had hired a full-time consultant on drugs, Lutheran Minister Dean A. Hepper, who in turn said that he would employ a former...