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So 64.134.25.18 just added back in two paragraphs about the 2008 and 2010 drug deaths that were removed by Mindbunny last December as unencyclopedic. Rather than a quiet edit war, perhaps a discussion of whether this info should be included is in order. The previous discussion doesn't look like a clear consensus emerged. blahaccountblah (talk) 16:20, 5 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
Mindbunny is right. News reporting in this article is not appropriate. I deleted the offending sections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.7.115.54 (talk) 19:08, 2 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
The "drug use" section is silly. Heavy drinking and recreational drugs are a typical part of American college life. It's certainly not peculiar to Reed. In fact, when I was there Lewis and Clarke students were significantly worse, because they spend less time studying. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:DA8:D800:107:A12D:E3A:1F3A:6F12 (talk) 10:58, 29 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
I have deleted the "drug use" section, concuring with the observation above. Forms of 'substance abuse' (from binge drinking to marijuana to hard drugs) occur on every campus in the US. *All* colleges are known to be (have a 'reputation' for) places where partying occurs. What makes the inclusion of this section in the Reed article distinctive is its clear intention to bias impressions of Reed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.203.230.181 (talk) 08:19, 24 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
For example, the 'Daily Beast' in 2010 attempted to rank US colleges according to drug use, yielding a list of the 50 'Druggiest Colleges.' It should be noted that Reed College did not make this list. Williams College did however -- and there is no 'Drug Use' section in the Williams College wikipedia article -- even though, if the Daily Beast is to be believed, it has a 'reputation' as one of the top 10 'druggy' colleges in the country. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/12/13/the-50-druggiest-colleges-from-west-virginia-to-williams.html
Relevance: While the above article is relevant to the discussion going on here on the talk page, it does not seem relevant to an encyclopedia article about Reed College, since the Daily Beast did not rank Reed. Therefore, I believe the last edit to the article should be reverted, and I'll go ahead and do that if there is no objection here.--Thelema12 (talk) 20:07, 18 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
The problem is that the Drug Use section is not making a distinction between contemporary and historical drug use at Reed. Campus life is much more tame these days, but the reputation of the school is based on the Reed drug culture of the 60's up through the neo-nannying hooraw of the 90's. I can personally attest that use of hallucinogens at Reed in the 80's was way more prevalent than at Swarthmore or Williams, just to name two of our peer schools. Way more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wabobo3 (talk • contribs) 01:39, 10 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
So 149.157.1.188 just blanked the whole section. My initial instinct is to restore it, just because blanking the entire section seems a bit drastic. Thoughts? --Thelema12 (talk) 20:32, 3 November 2015 (UTC)Reply
The continue presence of the 'drugs use' section on the Reed article raises the question why other college & university Wikipedia articles do not also include sections on 'drug use' -- despite the fact that ALL colleges and universities in the US have a 'reputation' for drug use. May 2016: "Four fatal drug overdoses, two large scale Ecstasy busts and an increase in 'marijuana induced psychosis' from high potency pot in the past year have prompted UC Santa Cruz leaders to heighten their warnings to students about drugs" -- yet there is no section reporting these deaths for UC Santa Cruz on Wikipedia and no section on UCSC's putative 'reputation' for drug use. February 2015: 『11 MDMA overdoses that occurred at Connecticut’s Wesleyan University campus over the weekend.』 This was actually a major national news story. So where is the section on 'drug use' for Wesleyan? The inclusion of this section here treats Reed differently than other colleges & universities despite widespread reporting on drugs (and alcohol abuse) on college campuses nationwide and is plainly meant to promote a particular (implicitly damaging) picture of Reed vis-a-vis peer institutions. It needs to be removed in its entirety. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.228.200.174 (talk) 22:27, 30 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
See for example the page below, which presents information from the Office of Postsecondary Education on campus drug use. There is a specific graphical image that says: "SUNY New Paltz gained its reputation as a 'drug school' decades ago..." Again I ask: Where is the section on for this reputation on SUNY New Paltz's Wikipedia page? Scroll down, the 2014 Drugs on Campus report suggest that UCSC has the HIGHEST rate of disciplinary actions for campus drugs use *in the country.* (Note further that Reed is not listed anywhere.) Yet, there is no section on Wikipedia reporting this 'reputation' -- despite its emphasis in a federal report, and despite the fact that in 2016 of this year there were four fatal drug overdoses on the UCSC campus. To be clear, I am NOT arguing that these universities merit a section that disparages their reputations as 'druggie campuses.' Rather, I am suggesting that for Reed's page to include this section when other universities do not would unfairly bias impressions of Reed. As a result, I have deleted the inappropriate section. http://www.projectknow.com/discover/drugs-on-campus-2014/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.228.200.174 (talk) 23:02, 30 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
Athird opinion has been requested. The Third Opinion request does not appear to be valid, because there have been statements within the past two weeks by one registered user and from two IP addresses in different blocks, which appears to be three editors. I will be removing the Third Opinion request. However, as an opinion of a long-time editor, I see no reason why the section should be removed entirely, because I do not see an argument that it is inadequately sourced or otherwise inappropriate. If there is an issue about the content of the section, it can be discussed at the dispute resolution noticeboard or via a Request for Comments. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:07, 3 September 2016 (UTC)Reply
http://books.google.com/books?id=uWUUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA612#v=onepage&q&f=false -Pete (talk) 18:04, 17 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
The "Rankings" section only gives Reed College's view of the validity of the US News rankings. Furthermore, the section omits the US News ranking for Reed despite the fact that this is a common practice for college/university articles (regardless of Reed College's particular views on how fair it thinks its own rankings are). Overall, the section has an obvious bias in favor of Reed College's view on the issue; the ranking should definitely be included, and the other side of the conflict should be fairly represented if we're going to include Reed College's argument in this section.<And U.S. News and World Report publishes unbiased rankings? Hahaha> 69.123.226.62 (talk) 03:59, 21 August 2012 (UTC)Reply
The original rejection of the U.S. News rankings by Reed dates to Paul Bragdon's tenure as college president in the 1980's. At that time, Reed was virtually the only college of note to reject the rankings and to refuse to cooperate with the ranking process. Because of the historicity of Reed's stand, some note of its unique role is warranted.
The text says, "The official mascot of Reed is the griffin.", a griffin is depicted at the top of the info sidebar, with 'Unofficial Mascot' below it. I do not know which is correct, but one of these should be corrected to match the other. --Thespian (talk) 08:18, 25 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
An unregistered editor is edit warring with multiple editors to insert into this article information about a recent event that has hit the news. The details of this event are not clear - which is often the case with breaking news and one reason why we discourage adding recent news to encyclopedia articles - but they center on a student who was banned from the discussion section of a class and the circumstances surrounding that ban. A full paragraph devoted to an unclear, recent incident sourced primarily from news articles and partisan sources is way over the line given how new and unclear the information about this incident and the fact that so far it's just a he-said-he-said exchange between two people. Of course, should this become more clear and evolve into something larger then we should reevaluate our position.
In any case, edit warring with other editors over a simple content dispute is unacceptable and must stop. ElKevbo (talk) 01:07, 22 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
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I wanted to inquire whether it's more suitable to organize various related sections in this article ("drug use", "crime", "political and social activism", etc.) under a more general "campus culture" or student life section? The articles for other liberal arts colleges with similar campus cultures and traditions of political activism (i.e., Oberlin, Williams, Wesleyan, Bard, Macalaster) have this organizational structure. Die Kunst Der Fuge (talk) 20:13, 28 June 2023 (UTC)Reply