September 24, 2008
NYU Student Kicked Out of Dorm, Not School, for Drugs
Just weeks into the first semester, students narced out an unidentified NYU freshman for allegedly selling coke from her dorm room, prompting her expulsion from the residence. That a student at an obscenely expensive university was supplementing her allowance by slinging a little yey is hardly a shocker. But what's raising eyebrows over at the campus paper is that her room was never searched, no evidence was collected, she wasn't formally charged with a crime, and the accusations were never passed along to campus cops or the NYPD.
All the student ever received was a letter on September 11th informing her that she was found "responsible for possessing, using or distributing an illegal or controlled substance" and would have to move out of university housing. She's appealing the decision and tells the Washington Square News, "They have no evidence. They have the word of three roommates who are just being 18-year-old catty girls...Drugs were part of my past. But I have never used drugs since I got here from California." The freshman says the gossip-mongering princesses who complained about all the late night visitors to her room were just mistaking her discount cigarette business for narcotics dealing, is all.
Apparently the U.S. Department of Education's classic tome Handbook for Crime Reporting (it's been a while since we read it) suggests that cases involving drugs should be referred to law enforcement. But it's understandable why the administration would want to keep stuff like this on the down low—why make it a police matter when a young student is just setting forth on her thrilling, $200,000 educational journey?
Photo courtesy Wally G.
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But is she as hot as the pot hottie?
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Doesn't $200,000 buy you the right to be a drug dealer?
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I think we should pack up NYU and move it down Souh
near Duke.
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...on a very special episode of "Gossip Girls"...
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My roommate sophomore year sold weed out of our room. Even the RA bought it from him.
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If your going to plop down 200 large for a not-so-Ivy league education, at least have a snow delivery service on campus for the student's benefit.
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Guess NYU must've needed the extra dorm room.
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pics or it didn't happen
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Welcome to George Bush style justice. Guilty until proven innocent.
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Wait a second, all this may be actually about her "discount cigarette" business instead of drugs since cigarettes are a controlled substance and it is illegal to sell ciggies that do not have NY State tax stamps on them.
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I don't think you are allowed to conduct business at all from your dorm room at NYU...and the cigarette business is STILL illegal, as diabolix noted.
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@9: Thanks, I was afraid there wasn't going to be a way to tie this story to George Bush, but, by golly, you did it.
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Classic NYU. My sophomore year roommate used to get methadone mailed to her at the dorms. In a strung out rage she threw a hot cup of coffee at me and I still couldn't get rid of the girl.
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if it's really that easy lets report all nyu students. With any luck we can have them all renting out in newark or moving back to mom and dads to go to school back in Richmond.
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Kids need to know that under a little noticed provision in the Federal Student Act, if you are found in possession of drugs whils a student, your right to student loans can be revoked. The good news is how few schools are willing to lose out on that money just to punish a stupid undergrad.