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What years did your husband work in the kitchens? It is ridiculous to assume that the students made pot brownies using school equipment.
Every year during Renn Fayre, there is something called the Feast. It's meant as a chance for students and guests to sit together and share a meal during the busy celebration schedule. The Feast cooked in the cafeteria kitchens by students without any help from the regular kitchen staff, but with the supervision of the main chefs.
I organized the Feast in 2004. We baked a LOT of brownies, enough to feed around 4,000 people. But I assure you that none of them contained marijuana or any other drugs. Neither did any of the other food. And I have not heard of the school kitchens ever being used to make drug contaminated food at any other time.

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I am really hoping that this public discussion will be able to elicit an honest answer from Mr. Pitkin about the purpose of his article and what he hoped he would achieve by publishing it in the WW. If there is a constructive message hidden in the article, what is it? At present, it comes off as an embellished titillating tale of debauchery, and nothing more. If we use the tabloids as a comparison (and from the horrifying cover of the WW, I don?t think this is an unjust comparison), the main purpose of such a highly suggestive expose is to increase readership (and revenue from advertising). Or in Mr. Pitkin?s case it may also be a cheap bid to increase his own personal readership, at the expense of the Reed community. I hope this radio show will give Mr. Pitkin an opportunity to redeem his own journalistic integrity and a venue to explain and defend his intentions.

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