By Kim Juhas (Whetstone Staff Writer)

Many students at Wesley College said the administration is not communicating with them very well.

One of the recent incidents on campus included a major drug bust in a car in Malmberg’s garage basement on Feb. 14.

Some sources, including Student Government Association president Tanner Polce, said the marijuana discovered had a street value of about $15,000. School officials, including head of security Walt Beaupre and student life officials Kevin Hansbury and Mary-Alice Ozechoski, refused to say how much was found.

Most students had either not heard about what happened, or had heard various rumors.

“I had no idea of this incident,” said junior Les Ragan, a Malmberg resident. “I found out from one of my friends mentioning it.”

Fellow Malmberg resident Mark Mattern also knew nothing about it.

“No, I had no clue that this happened,” said the sophomore “I believe Wesley is trying to protect the school’s integrity. Wesley obviously knows students will talk to their peers about the school and it would just give the school a bad reputation to those people looking to go here.”

Malmberg’s RA, junior Mike Mango, said he couldn’t talk about it.

“I cannot because I do not really know,” he said.

Sophomore Malmberg resident Livia DeMarco was one of the few students who were aware of the incident.

“Yeah, I heard about the drug bust, I saw the cop car in the garage,” she said.  “I do not know much about the whole incident though.”

Not only is the lack of communication between Wesley and its students affecting the students who live on campus, it seems to be causing an issue for those students who live off campus.

“I had no idea that there was a drug bust in Malmberg,” said senior Kimberly Fearnbach. “That might have to do with me living off campus but it would still be good to know.”

Other off-campus students didn’t know.

“No I had no idea of this incident until I heard from word of mouth,” said junior Linnea Cavallo, who lives off campus.  “It really scares me because we are not located in the best part of town, so if this kid had as much weed as they said he did and was probably selling it, who knows what kind of people were walking around our campus, into our parking garage or even into our buildings.”

Head of security Walter Beaupre urges students to report any disturbances or criminal activity to 302-736-2436 or through the Wesley Anonymous TIPS line at 302-747-5110.