While walking through the Wedge on Tuesday, September 17, I notice a vendor selling sweaters, earrings, and necklaces, among various other trinkets. I am forever interested in jewelry, so I stopped to view the merchandise. I notice that of the necklaces being sold, there were a few that looked like funny looking little trolls. These necklaces turned out to be pipes, which I am pretty sure were not made to smoke tobacco.
Now, this made curious about a few things. Our campus promotes a Drug-Free atmosphere, and yet, they allow vendors to come and sell us pipes? This seems very hypocritical to me. I watched the news last night and I discovered that Clinton wants to limit the amount of publicity that beer companies can have on campuses. Should this not also apply to potential drug paraphanalia that anyone can make and sell?
Shouldn't there be some sort of questionaire that vendors should fill out so that the school would know what they are selling, and therefore perhaps lower the liability? How would it look if a student overdosed from the usage of the pipe, died, and then it was discovered he or she had bought the pipe from a school supported vendor? Would the school not be liable? Would this not be bad publicity anywhere?
Liz Kieronski
Class of '98