STUDENTS RESENT DRUG

High school students said the two adults charged yesterday with running an
LSD ring in the area were "taking advantage" of the kids they allegedly
recruited to sell the drugs.

"They're cowards," a Neshaminy High School student said after hearing about
the two local men arrested yesterday for allegedly running an LSD ring out
of his school.

"They're using kids to do their business," said Pete, a junior at the
Middletown school who asked that his last name not be used.

A county grand jury indictment charges Donald Bound Jr., 26, of Hulmeville
and Harry Giordano, 22, of Lower Makefield with supplying LSD to students
at the high school as well as Poquessing Middle School, Carl Sandburg
Middle School and the Bucks County Technical High School. The students then
sold $5 hits of the hallucinogenic drug to their fellow students for about
five years, according to county law enforcement officials.

"They're taking advantage of [the students]," Jeff Wetzel, a sophomore at
the school, said yesterday while playing basketball at Veterans Park in
Middletown. But he added that students who fall for the lure of drugs are
ruining their lives.

"If they want to mess it up, they can," Jeff said.

Drugs are an issue in all schools, Neshaminy Superintendent Gary Bowman
said in a statement released yesterday, and the district is taking a
pro-active approach to fighting the uphill battle.

The preventive measures include recently criticized random drug dog
searches and placing at-risk students in alternative schools away from the
general student population.

"We're not backing away from our responsibility," Bowman said in the statement.

Brett, a sophomore at the high school who also asked that his last name not
be used, said he didn't think it would be a good idea to sell drugs at
school "because the consequences outweigh the advantages."

No one has ever approached him to buy drugs, but Brett said if anyone did,
he'd know what he'd say to them.

"I'd tell them I'm not interested. I've got too much to look forward to so
I don't have time to worry about drugs," Brett said.