The piece is clearly a bit of snark - I mean, this is the Web site that Tina Brown founded and edited - responding to 'Operation Ivy League' that snared students dealing drugs at Columbia University. Although not necessarily for the same reason as hizzoner. 'I think the whole thing is preposterous,' the article quotes the mayor of our fair city saying. (So, technically, it is among the 'druggiest' schools, in contradiction to the headline.) Included in the top 10 were the college where I now teach. The article tells us that The Daily Beast posted a list of the ' 50 druggiest colleges' in the United States.
Which I think violates certain rules taught in journalism school about writing headlines and 'not' being not news in the first place. The front page of our almost-daily newspaper blared with a headline about the college where I teach being 'not among 'druggiest' schools, locals say.'
