EASIEST WAY NOT TO GET PUNISHED FOR SMOKING MARIJUANA IS NOT DO IT IN FIRST
PLACE

In Damien Nichols' Nov. 19 guest column, "Pot and policy," Nichols
lists all the horrible things that can happen to students caught
smoking weed in their dorm rooms. Believing it unjust that students
committing illegal acts in their dorm rooms are punished, he proposed
changing these "draconian" policies. Nichols does, however, skip over
the most obvious and easiest remedy to this perceived problem: Don't
smoke weed in your rooms! It seems fairly obvious to me you shouldn't
do something if you stand the chance of getting caught, and the result
is getting kicked out of the dorms, financial aid revocation and a
fine. If you really feel the need to smoke weed, find somewhere off
the campus to do it.

Bob Salera, Junior

Criminology and criminal justice