This one:
Posted on 05/06/2008 9:53:31 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Nearly 100 students at San Diego State arrested in drug bust May 6 12:38 PM US/Eastern By ALLISON HOFFMAN Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The San Diego County district attorney's office says nearly 100 students have been arrested at San Diego State University on drug- related charges.
Drugs, cash and guns were seized from sellers and buyers in the bust that followed a five-month undercover operation.
Prosecutors say the 96 arrests include fraternity members.
Defendants are scheduled to appear in state court to face charges Tuesday afternoon.
Those Fighting Aztecs are on a roll.
Ah, another lesson for the Muslim world about how nuanced our idea of freedom is.
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Oh boy. Wonder if my nephew is involved...
Were they on triple secret probation?
Most college students are not there for learning and making a better life. They are there to stall having to get a real job and get a useless degree like art history so they can party.
Meanwhile, the city government is awash in bribery and corruption. I feel much safer now.
I think they’re rollin their own.
I didn’t know we were going by their standard.
By the way, did you miss the huge drug busts (mostly heroin), in Iran last week?
I’m sure that this must have been a new class on the effects of drugs and guns on society.
Yep, the hangings will commence just as soon as they get done untying the knots from the homosexuals that don’t exist but were first in line.
Not to mention the evils of fraternities!
LOL - SDSU always had a reputation as a party school.
Must be those conservative math majors. They trip around campus stoned out of their mind all the time doing those proofs from real analysis and topology and group theory in their head!
That's a pretty damn big brush your using there. What I'll say about many college students is that they aren't given much guidance about what they should pursue in college. Usually they are told "you can be and do anything you like in this world" so they pick so-called useless majors because they are so insulated from the real-world and that's what they're interested in. High school teachers themselves don't know much about how to earn a living doing anything but teaching so they don't do a good job of presenting "the real world either". As for the partying, there's nothing new about people in their late teens and early twenties partying... it was even done in our grandparents and great-grandparents time (if they were fortunate enough to attend college). But do they go to school for the express purpose of partying? I doubt it; you can do all that stuff without going to school. They go to school because everyone tells them that going to college is the best way to succeed in the world today. True or not; that's what they are told and there's income data to support that.
You’re so right..I wish the feds would be so diligent in their investigation of the political body of San Diego. A bigger bunch of thieves and liars I’ve never seen.
Ahhh, my good old Alma Mater. I'm surprised it was only 100.
I would say that 30-40% of the kids in college have no business there but do so because of easy government money that they can get to live on while the keep their 1.2-2.0 GPA and festive lifestyle. To quote a good movie, “the world needs ditch-diggers too.”
When I was a senior in high school I was not sure of what I wanted to do in/after college either but since I had to pay the brunt of the cost I made sure to go to class and do my work. I did not have time to party very much.
The drugs involved are cocaine and ecstasy. I missed the name of the fraternity.
Smok’n that Aztec gold?.....
This one:
Hey, don’t get me started about the student loan program. All this has done has driven up the cost of a college education. Children have no idea (how could they) that the program is a huge scam supported by the banks and the colleges. Then they graduate and are presented with huge monthly bills... that’s when they learn the value of their chosen major. It’s too bad they don’t get better guidance in high school or from the college when they go there... but then, why would people in education want to discourage kids and their parents from borrowing as much money as they possibly can to support the college. It’s almost as insidious as payroll deduction. ;-)
Oh about five years ago my buddy and I went to an SDSU/UCLA game....and we walked through their parking area prior to entering the Rose Bowl. I was struck by how much ganja was in the air....and what type of people they appeared to be.
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Article fails to provide essential information.
1) To start with, these are college students. It is highly unlikely they will be smoking meth or crack cocaine, shooting heroin, etc. Most likely they are smoking, selling or dealing in small amounts of marijuana.
2) Cash. Amounts usually over $100 are confiscated and assumed to be proceeds from drug transactions. Now what possible legitimate use could students have for having over $100 in cash?
3) Guns. California has strict gun control, which means that guns are everywhere, and are often kept because of the constitutional right to bear arms, and fear of being unarmed, despite it being on campus.
4) This means that “nearly 100” college students, if convicted, will be denied any more student aid, effectively ending their college educations, whether or not they receive any jail time at all.
Please explain how any of this benefits society.
I receommed HS grads work or do something else (military) for two years and then they will probably be more serious about college.
“Must be those conservative math majors. They trip around campus stoned out of their mind all the time doing those proofs from real analysis and topology and group theory in their head!”
Hey, I think you’re on to something here. The Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Francis Crick has said he was high on LSD when he discovered DNA.
Wow, who'da thunk it!
Most college students are not there for learning and making a better life. They are there to stall having to get a real job and get a useless degree like art history so they can party.
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I read a statement such as yours above to mean “the folks I hung out with in college ...”, well, that or, “damn, I wish I had hung out with folks like that in college”.
Frankly, I think most college students are there to learn, get a better life AND party. I did both, and I suspect quite a few other freepers did the same.
Hey there.
If the parents would stop funding their kiddies to attend school these problems would be less.
If kids had to work their way through school they would have less time for this crap.
I have cousins and their children and other relatives
who worked their way through school which included Universities in San Diego, Rutgers, Ohio St. Univ. and others. They are all successful today.
I have to laugh when I hear parents say they are saving for the kids to go to school. Why? Let the kids work and understand what the real world is.
Nothing like going off a small article and make sweeping conclusions.
Authorities seized several guns, at least $60,000 in cash, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine and illicit prescription drugs, authorities said. Two kilograms of cocaine and 350 ecstasy pills also were seized, officials said.
Just a couple pot smokers with a joint and a couple bucks. No meth and no coke. Bet the prescription drugs where opiate based as well. If you have saw the amount of mj seized, it was no small amount. Next time you jump to conclusions make sure the facts back you up.
Go visit a big campus.
Go visit a big campus.
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You mean like the 20K+ enrollment my son graduated from or the 25K+ enrollment my daughter graduated from?
Been there, done that. My comment stands.
Saw some pics earlier, most of the kids look like typical
suburb kids.
One dealer was a month away from a Masters in Homeland Security.
Again, Waaaay to much time on their hands, get a real job.
Okay, given that I had only the original article to work from, point taken. However, examine what you just wrote.
“$60,000 in cash.” That averages to $600 each. Average monthly rent in San Diego is twice that.
“Marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine and illicit prescription drugs, authorities said. Two kilograms of cocaine and 350 ecstasy pills also were seized...”
Of that, it can be reasonably assumed that the cocaine and ecstasy were both held by one or more dealers. So yes, indeed, those would be legitimate busts. Note no quantities on the other drugs.
According to Fox News, it is now “75 students, gang members and others”.
The bottom line is now we have to wait to see what the breakdown is of charges against the assembled. The proof of the pudding will be in how many have serious charges, and how many accessory charges.
Aztokes?
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