04/01/2006 WikiPaltzers and drug enthusiasts show strong presence on Accepted Students Day
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04/01/2006
A half dozen students who use both WikiPaltz and psychedelic drugs met Saturday with hundreds of people, mostly prospective students and their parents, to ensure that accepted students and their families knew how prevalent the drug culture and online community collaboration are in New Paltz.
"I can't believe how well the day went," said Justin Holmes, an avid psychedelic enthusiast and Chair of the Student Senate. "Future students and parents alike were extremely receptive to the notion that an environment of inclusivity, diversity, drugs, and collaboration promote academic and political progress."
The students gathered at around 11:00AM and began on Parker Quad. Throughout the day, they divided into groups and traveled back and forth between the Student Union Building, the various quads, and the Residence Halls.
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| The trifold pamphlet distributed by the group. |
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The students handed out fliers for WikiPaltz as well as a publication about New Paltz Drug Culture. A major part of their effort was to raise awareness about the nature of drug use in New Paltz and its impact on Local Politics and Academics at SUNY New Paltz.
"It's clear to me that parents and students are seeking a community in which psychedelic exploration and the very issues of drug use and abuse are taken seriously," said Holmes. "I'm very proud and confident that SUNY New Paltz will be to their liking."
Student Senator Dan Curtis was out helping to spread the word, and remarked "The energy involved in this campaign was amazing." At one point, amongst a few hundred parents and students on the SUB Concourse, Dan sparked a bowl of some fine upstate outdoor to get the positive vibrations flowing. Shortly afterwards, he noted to a group of parents, "I find SUNY New Paltz to have a very supportive, constructive, and almost synergistic drug culture; it's much a safer environment here than at other universities."
One student, Anthony Scatuccio, tried to give information about drug culture to two HAB officials, not realizing who they were. Both refused to take the information. Later, he said "New Paltz is one of the safest places in the country to experiment with mind altering substances, if a student were to choose to do so, because there is a strong community aspect to drug use in New Paltz. In New Paltz, people make educated decisions on what they choose and don't choose to put in their body, and when asked about the effects of a substance, the average New Paltz drug advocate has a whole lot more information about the effetcs, both positive and negative, associated with a substance than someone at another college."
