"I think the whole thing is preposterous," the article quotes the mayor of our fair city saying. (So, technically, it is among the "druggiest" schools, in contradiction to the headline.)
Included in the top 10 were the college where I now teach. The article tells us that The Daily Beast posted a list of the " 50 druggiest colleges" in the United States. Which I think violates certain rules taught in journalism school about writing headlines and "not" being not news in the first place.
Ranked 11th on the list after Williams was Ohio Wesleyan University, which had a drug-use grade of C-plus.The front page of our almost-daily newspaper blared with a headline about the college where I teach being "not among 'druggiest' schools, locals say." Kolesar said the number of arrests included in the ranking doesnt correspond to any numbers he has found from Williams security or local law enforcement.
While Williams College received an A- from College Prowler - meaning its drug scene isnt visible and students dont feel pressured into doing drugs - it had 41 arrests on-campus for drug law violations in 2009 out of 2,141 students, according to the rankings. To determine the final ranking, the College Prowler grades were given a numerical value, which counted for one-third of each institutions final score.ĭrug-law violation arrests per capita of students per institution contributed to one-third of the score, and the final one-third was the drug-use rank. The site also collected data from the U.S.ĭepartment of Education about the number of on-campus arrests for drug-law violations at each institution in 2009. It then gathered information on illicit drug, marijuana and cocaine use by state for people 18 to 25 years old from the U.S.ĭepartment of Health and Human Services 2009 National Survey on Drug Abuse. Our knowledge of the situation is much more local and direct than that, he said.
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