The following message is being distributed to our campus community and current parents via email.
Dear friends,
This evening Middletown Police arrested four Wesleyan students as a result of an investigation into the drug-related hospitalizations over the weekend. The University immediately suspended the students pending a formal hearing. We take very seriously allegations concerning the distribution of dangerous drugs, and the University will continue to cooperate with state and local officials. We will do everything we can to make our community as safe as possible.
We are relieved to know that all but two of the students hospitalized over the weekend have been released and are doing much better. And I am pleased to report that the two students who remain at Hartford Hospital have made progress. We continue to be hopeful about their recovery, and we ask you to keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
We are a community that values freedom. None of us want to see arrests on our campus, but even less do we want to see ambulances rushing from our residences with students whose lives are in danger.
Our community has been reminded these last few days of our fragility but also of our resiliency – of our fears but also of our care for one another.
Wesleyan is an extraordinary place of exuberant self-discovery and compassionate solidarity. May we continue to find joyful inspiration in a community that looks out for the well-being of all of its members.
Yours truly,
Michael Roth
I have watched the news with such feelings of sadness: for the hospitalized students, for the foolishness of the participants, for their parents’ suffering, for the university, which has been such a wonderful place for my daughter. You are all in my prayers and if there is anything we can do to help, we would be proud to do so.
Go after the drug culture at #eclectic with the same fervor as the all-maleness of Psi-U and DKE.