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Easy there, dude. I went to reed on the GI Bill. There are a lot of over-privileged fake rastas at Reed, it's true (like nearly everywhere else on the planet these days)- but no more than in the general population. Your comment makes it sound like the first time you heard the term "trustafarian" was in reference to Reedies- that term has been floating around since at least the late eighties. I'd heard it long before I knew Reed existed. What rock have you been hiding under?

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I graduated from reed in 2003. Dr. Steinberger's points about the pervasiveness of drug and alcohol abuse in our culture should be considered here. By way of an example, I was an enlisted man in the US Navy before my time at Reed- I observed at least as significant a problem with substance abuse in the military (including both alcohol and hard drugs) as I did at Reed. Lets be honest here; substance abuse is a HUMAN problem, not a problem of class, race, or institution.

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