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Below is the mass Email sent to SDSU students in regards to the drug arrest that took place today:

This morning, SDSU Police concluded a year-long investigation with the arrest of 18 SDSU students suspected of selling drugs to other students. The majority of the arrests took place in the College Area and on the SDSU campus as part of a joint operation by SDSU Police and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

For updated information on the investigation and arrests, visit: www.sdsu.edu/information

I want to commend the excellent work done by the SDSU Police – who led this investigation. I also want to extend our gratitude to the Drug Enforcement Agency and District Attorney’s Office for their outstanding cooperation and support.

Several SDSU students are among those arrested today. Each of these students has been suspended. They will not be returning to class or taking final exams until completion of due-process review, to which they are entitled under the law. Those who were living in university-managed housing have been evicted.

San Diego State is dedicated to higher learning and to human growth and development. The use of and/or trafficking in illegal substances are inconsistent with our values and with the pursuit of our mission. Certainly today’s arrests underscore the scope of the challenges universities face as we fight this major societal problem. We are determined to remove people from our community who place our students at risk, and to see that they are turned over to the criminal justice system.

Today’s arrests are a big step forward toward a safer environment for our students, faculty, staff and neighbors. SDSU will continue to do what is necessary – through both enforcement and education – to encourage students to make the responsible choices to ensure the health and safety of our campus community.

Man, everyone knew that there were drugs at SDSU. One time I was waiting for courtesy patrol in front of Villa Alvarado to come pick me up (does that still exist btw?) and while I was waiting, some guy in a rickety car call out at me asking if I was waiting for some E (ugh I thought he was asking me if I was waiting for security). Big “surprise” there’s drugs at SDSU, but it’s great that something VISUAL was done about it.

SDSU is less than a week away to finals, and it’s pretty damn stressful. The school is packed, which is annoying. I hate going in the library because there are no more open seats to study and half of the people in them are sleeping…geez people just go home.

Oh, and now the trolley is always packed and the school is crowded because people stopped ditching, as if coming to the last week of school is going to redeem them.

::sighs::

Anyway, I can’t focus in class anymore and my classes are all going off tangents. Yesterday, in my Eng 530 class they started a conversation on British longbows, and movies that involved them…it revealed to me that some of my classmates have “eh” movie tastes.

The one characters I’ve named “Quite Contrary”…she ALWAYS brings up movies as concrete detail to support her arguments…they’re type that you roll your eyes at because they’re re-runed on TBS or USA all the time…like “Pleasantville” or “Knights Tale”…or “Blockbusters” that everyone has watched, but are totally over…like “American Beauty”.

Below are the notes I took…enjoy…

In case you can’t read it it says:

“Quite Contrary and Guy that sits in front of me bring up the movie, “Troy,” for comparison. blah.

Then Guy in front of me then brings up Iron Man, because he just saw it and they mentioned the bow and arrow in the film I guess…I swear…collectively my class would have the blah-i-est Netflix ever.

We were talking about the British longbow and how the British would have won the revolution had they used that instead of rifles.

Which brought up the Elves in LOTR, who Quite Contrary thinks may have used British Long Arrows (I have no idea)…do you see what I’m saying about Netflix?

*Wait the professor just brought up 40 Year Old Virgin…I wouldn’t mind placing that in my Queue…but she’s the professor, of course she’d place above the curve.

BACK TO CHAUCER…”

(sorry about the fuzzy photos, I must start remembering to bring a camera around, the Sidekick really is an overrated phone)

Maybe it’s because I’m a bit nosey, but finds like this make me smile, or smirk hha.

I was walking through the Aztec bookstore, looking for a book to buy for class (I try to hold off buying anything till I find out I can’t get it from the library, Amazon.com, ebay or from a friend) when I ran into Sherman Alexie’s novel, Indian Killer. I read it for my English 250b class, back in the day. I picked up a used copy to flip to some quotes I remembered when I noticed a message written inside and it said:

To Xxxxxx.

Good luck on your many
endeavours through life.
We know you’ll turn out
just fine. I hope you find
this novel inspiring &
that you may one day
overcome your schizophrenia.

With love,

Grandma & Grandpa

Wow, what a message to run into. A lot of people are probably wondering why he/she sold it…well I have my theories:

1. The bookstore is damn expensive and he/she probably need the money for the next round of over priced books.
2. Maybe he/she is not schizophrenic so the message is a reminder of how his/her family has overacted over him/her being “emotional and different” , but he/she is not going to just toss it into the trash (because of theory 1)
3. His/Her roommate is an @$$hole and stole then sold it…again, probably reason 1.

Sorry, I’ve got my mind on my money and money on my mind. (oh Snoop)

I was walking around in Storm Hall and I passed by this flier.

Often thought to be a myth, college Republicans do exist and now I see they don’t meet in secret.

I bet you’re wondering if I’m a Republican.

My answer to you: My mother told me to never talk politics.