Editing Reed College (section)

==Drug use==
Since the 1960s, Reed has had a reputation for tolerating open drug use among its students.<ref>{{cite news | title = Rogue of the Week |work = Willamette Week | date = April 24, 2002  | url= http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-955-the_federal_bureau_of_investigation.html}}</ref> ''[[The Insider's Guide to the Colleges]]'', written by the staff of ''[[Yale Daily News]]'', notes an impression among students of institutional permissiveness: "According to students, the school does not bust students for drug or alcohol use unless they cause harm or embarrassment to another student."<ref name="yaledaily">{{cite book |title=The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2006 |author=''[[Yale Daily News]]'' staff |edition=32nd |date=July 16, 2005 |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |location=New York |isbn= 0-312-34157-1 |page=771}}</ref>

In April 2008, student Alex Lluch died of a [[heroin overdose]] in his on-campus dorm room.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1207621554181530.xml&coll=7|title=Death on campus stuns Reed|last=Bernstein|first=Maxine|date=April 8, 2008|access-date=September 22, 2008|work=The Oregonian}}</ref> His death prompted revelations of several previous incidents, including the near-death heroin overdose of another student only months earlier.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/susan_nielsen/index.ssf?/base/editorial/120796171467460.xml&coll=7|title=Drugs on Campus|last=Nielsen|first=Susan|date=April 13, 2008|work=The Oregonian|access-date=September 22, 2008}}</ref> College President Colin Diver said "I don't honestly know" whether the drug death was an isolated incident or part of a larger problem. "When you say Reed," Diver said, "two words often come to mind. One is brains. One is drugs."<ref>{{cite news|last=Pitkin|first=James|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-9009-higher_ed.html|title=Higher Ed|date=May 14, 2008|newspaper=[[Willamette Week]]|access-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref> Local reporter James Pitkin of the newspaper ''[[Willamette Week]]'' editorialized that "Reed College, a private school with one of the most prestigious academic programs in the U.S., is one of the last schools in the country where students enjoy almost unlimited freedom to experiment openly with drugs, with little or no hassles from authorities", though ''Willamette Week'' stated the following week concerning Pitkin's editorial: "As of press time, almost 500 responses, many expressing harsh criticism of ''Willamette Week'', had been posted on our website."<ref>{{cite news|title=Inbox|date=May 21, 2008|newspaper=Willamette Week|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-9031-inbox.html|access-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref>

In March 2010, another student died of drug-related causes in his off-campus residence.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/reed_college_rattled_by_second.html | work=The Oregonian | title=Reed College rattled by second student death this month | date=March 23, 2010}}</ref> This led ''[[The New York Times]]'' to conclude that "Reed{{nbsp}}... has long been known almost as much for its unusually permissive atmosphere as for its impressively rigorous academics." Law enforcement authorities promised to take action, including sending undercover agents to Reed's annual [[Renn Fayre]] celebration.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/education/27reed.html |title=Reed College's President Is Told to Crack Down on Campus Drug Use|work= The New York Times|date= April 27, 2010|access-date=July 29, 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/04/college-threatened-with-crack-house-law.html "College Threatened With ‘Crack House’ Law"], ''[[Newsweek]]'', May 4, 2010</ref>

In February 2012, the Reed administration chose to call the police following the discovery of "two to three pounds of marijuana and a small amount of [[MDMA|ecstasy]] and [[LSD]] in the on-campus apartment of two juniors."<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/02/arrest_of_reed_students_on_mar.html|title=Arrest of Reed students on marijuana charges stirs campus debate|work=OregonLive.com|access-date=2018-04-14|language=en-US}}</ref> Following campus debate, Reed's president at the time, Colin Diver, issued a letter to students and staff, saying the college would not tolerate illegal drug use on campus: "Such behavior endangers the health and welfare of the entire community, attracts potentially dangerous criminal activity on campus, undermines the academic mission of the college, and violates the college's obligations under state and federal law."<ref name=":1" />