Uhm, guys? You are NOT going to believe this. We may have mentioned this to you before, but this is for serious folks. Hold on to your britches: college kids do drugs. And it gets worse. Colleges really don't like to tell the authorities about it.
The Post today has an EXCLUSIVE report (a month after a similar story in the News) that tells us the shocking truth. While Columbia might have all the glam and glitz of being in the Ivy League and getting national headlines for a drug bust named after a 80s punk band, NYU is where the real fun is. Not only is NYU more expensive than its peer uptown, it also has more students and more of them do drugs!
Last year, the Post reports, there were 610 drug-related incidents at NYU compared to 121 at Columbia. And in the former's case the cops were only called in twice and at the latter they were never called—because that would be bad PR. According to folks who spoke to the paper, and from what we've seen with our own eyes, both schools (really, most schools') campus security have been given strict orders to not call the cops unless there is a life and death situation.
The Post story did have one great tidbit we didn't know though. When campus security, at NYU at least, finds "a very small amount" of drugs they simply flush them "down the toilet," according to NYU spokesperson John Beckman. As if NYU students didn't already have a reputation for being pampered now they have this to deal with this? Kids can't even flush their own damn drugs?
