SUNY Oneonta for most drug arrest. Of course. I thought my friend who goes there was bullshitting me. I'm convinced.
My school isn't listed at any of the above. But then again, my school only has a student body of 4000 residents and 2000 commuters. Six arrests of anything seem like nothing compared to schools with 30,000+ students.
- Do you think it's a problem?
In my school, getting arrested doesn't seem to be a problem because people are smart about underaged drinking and smoking weed/drugs. Being an RA in the past, our policy about underaged drinking is that if you're a minor with a roommate older than 21, you're not allowed to drink. However, there is a widely accepted exception where if you're a minor and you drink with the doors closed, then as RA's, we can't charge into your room without any proof. But then again, the loud music 2AM in the morning and a locked door pretty much means you're drinking and I have to check everyone's ID. As for the drug policy, we have zero tolerance, but people are smart and smoke/inject/what have you out in the woods near the apple orchards where our campus policy doesn't hold. There were a few cases in the residence halls (not my building, I had the chill (intelligible) art students) where the housing department kicked people off. Considering the bars in town, there weren't many cases at all. On the top of my head, I only remember only 4 cases of dangerous alcoholic behavior in the last 4 years. There were a lot of bar raids, mostly because the taverns can't keep their shit together in the early morning.
To answer the actual question, it is a problem, but it can't be easily fixed. People like to get drunk and high in general and the best we can do is to reduce casualties.
- Should some schools consider harsher punishment for alcohol and drug related arrests?
It depends on the school's mentality. Some schools should. Some schools should just stick with their drug policy because maybe drug/alcohol reports are too few to be an issue. But other schools, they should be stricter. During a conference, I talked with another school known for their top-league football team and one of the students told me a scandal where a student been caught with marijuana/crack (I forgot which) on 4 occasions in three years with 2 being caught in the act. That student was the star runningback. If he went to my school, his ass would be dropped in the pits of hell just for being caught the first time.