NYU Kids Convince Newspapers Their Pot Spot was Magical

A pot smoking den inside an NYU dorm named 'Narnia' has gone up in smoke after drawing a little too much attention to itself. The alcove inside a Hayden Hall suite that saw up to 50 people in a given day enter it to get high was moved elsewhere when university officials read about in last week's Washington Square News, where students bragged about a spot that provided a sense of community the school didn't (not to mention a safe haven for oral sex). The paper talked to one freshman who smoked pot for the first time inside the room adorned with Christmas lights, a set of bongos, a stuffed raven and a poster of Prince Caspian. He told them, “I’ve learned a lot about life through marijuana and Narnia has facilitated my marijuana usage." That freshman ended up donating a 32-inch plasma television, an Xbox 360, and more than a dozen games to the space. In its wake, one junior told the Post, "Places like Narnia became social centers for students looking for a thrill. I bet student morale will plummet now that it's gone."

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By Billy Parker in News on March 29, 2009 7:15 PM

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Ray Turner

I am 63. I went to Vietnam at the age of 19. I got high on pot fumes because everybody around me smoked and I did not. The NVA (North Vietnamese Soldier) got high in the bushes in the Central Highlands waiting for us Americans to bust a cap in them. Although I was with the Infantry 24/7 skin to skin. I did not smoke any weed. I was a fully loaded platoon (Rambo type) combat medic and also a good Christian. Being young does not mean one has to go along with the crowd. I retired as a scientist, educator, and college executive. However, many of my teenage comrades are dead. May they rest in peace. Please do the right thing, please!

NYU Poly (alum)

jared

let me revise, breaking news, 18 year old kids smoke pot and do dumb things

jared

breaking news, students smoke pot. gothamist, you've really fallen pretty low on this one.

Jen S

Pretty sure the point isn't to mock the pot smokage, but the dumbass publicizing of said smokage.

sleeplessknight

This is why NYU kids will never be taken seriously, especially when they protest for nonsense like they did a month or so ago. That's it... April 1, 2009, i am officially announcing as "NYU Student Appreciation Day". I think April Fools days couldn't be a more appropriate day for these rich drug addicts, I mean students

valeriob

This is a joke, right?

NYWho?

marijuanalobby

See how much New York Cities and State(s) can save on taxes if Marijuana were decriminalized, then sign the petition:

MarijuanaLobby.org

Change we can engage in...

aspiringrapper

Good to see that higher education is first & foremost on the minds of these imbeciles.

Amanda Harletsch

Narnia lost for ever...damn.

Atomische

"I bet student morale will plummet"

I do hope he doesn't mean 'plummet' as in 'from the roof of the Bobst library.'

NannyState

Well, at least these brats have something to keep them company through the next twenty years of economic oblivion. See ya on the other side, Bongo.

gregroth

we are all african

jaycjay

Breaking news! Some college kids smoke pot! Sometimes they do it while in the company of other college kids, who are also smoking pot! More as it develops.

Guest

".. provided a sense of community the school didn't."

"Places like Narnia became social centers for students looking for a thrill. I bet student morale will plummet now that it's gone."

Christ. Somebody hook these kids up on the top floor of 3rd North so they have a long way to think on the jump down.

Oh boy. Now I'm going to get in trouble for bringing up NYU's way of driving kids out the window. But when you're making 'em pay what they do to live in a city where nobody wants 'em and for a mediocre education at a university that doesn't care, what'd you expect??

Guest

I'm going to add to my previous comment, to clear up the bitterness:

i. It's not about the pot. It's about NYU being the school it is and not providing any sense of community which leads to press like this

AND

ii. idiots who think that crawling into the magical world of "Narnia" is the only way they'll find community. It's god damn New York City, c'mon now..

kad2105

I totally agree. But I am a biased Columbia student/native New Yorker. I remember visiting NYU senior year of high school and thinking, "How many of these kids would last in this city if they weren't here for college?"