Today, in The American Spectator, Clinton W. Taylor praises the president of San Diego State University for doing something about his campus’s drug problem, rather than insulating students from their behavior:

This wasn’t a few neo-hippie tokers mellowing out in an off-campus garret. The DEA discovered organized drug sales operating out of seven fraternities; in some of them, “most” of the fraternity members were aware of the ongoing sales. There was a major health and security problem at SDSU. It’s a little difficult to study to become, say, a federal law enforcement officer when you’re coked to the gills and baked out of your gourd, text-messaging your suppliers and customers, while your frathouse maintains a small arsenal to protect its stash, and co-eds are OD’ing in the basements. There are plenty of villains in this story but one hero stands out — a college president who had the rare good judgment to do something about it. Though encomiums in The American Spectator probably don’t help a college president’s esteem among his colleagues, SDSU’s president Stephen Weber deserves a good word for doing the right thing and allowing the DEA to investigate the problem.