One would think that Columbia University is a college of excellence and prestige. But this was not the case when news hit the media that the university located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City had five (one is not featured in the picture on the right) of its students busted in a drug raid. The students were dealing the drugs out of frat houses and dorms located on the campus. Since July they had sold an estimated amount of about 11, 000 dollars in sales of LSD, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Marijuana, and a number of other drugs. The drug ring was named, "Operation Ivy League", they were arraigned at the Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday morning. Their bail was set from 25,000 to 75,000 dollars. The following are names and descriptions of those individuals who were detained:
Michael Wymbs, 22 was the former vice president of student council in the engineering school.
Harrison David, 20 was an engineering student and salutatorian from his high school.
Adam Klein, 20 is neuroscience major and part of the fencing team.
Jose Stephan Perez aka Stephan Vincenzo, 20 who was a Gate millennium scholar in which Bill Gates pays for your entire four years of schooling,
The students sold the drugs out of frat houses for some frats such as Alpha Epilson Phi, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Psi Upilson.
They went so far as to applying LSD into Altoid mints and Sweet tart candies.
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