This also continues the streak of Reed never having an alumnus as President because I guess we're too incorrigible. We need to be commanded. Reed does not have a problem with "hard drugs" any more than Portland, and indeed the nation in general. In fact, I would argue that Reed has less of a problem because on average Reed students are very bright and determined. Marijuana is not a hard drug and we're not Evergreen. This is about the select group that picked going for what they think is the biggest fish they can catch. I would note that of course it would have been too much to select a woman or an individual from an ethnic minority group, neither of which has held the position either. What's happening is not clean up, it is systematic obliteration and sanitizing of the college culture in order to assimilate Reed into the mainstream of liberal arts colleges. The students and the alumni don't want this to happen, but the bureaucrats sure do. It's tragic.