A Nouse investigation has found positive results in tests for cocaine at 24 different locations on campus. Positive sites include Heslington Hall, the University’s main administrative centre.

The tests, carried out using specialised cocaine swabs, yielded positive results in toilets in the Sports centre, the departments of Music, Economics and Chemistry, the Information Centre and Grimston House. Positive results were found in Derwent, Langwith, Vanbrugh, Wentworth, James, and Alcuin colleges.

The swabs also tested positive for cocaine in six separate toilets spread across all four floors of the Library.

Nouse reporters carried out positive tests in three separate toilets in Heslington Hall – including a unisex toilet on the first floor, where the offices of the Vice-Chancellor, the University’s Finance Director, the Registrar and the Chair of University Council are housed.

Positive results were also found in the men’s and women’s toilets in the building’s basement, home to the University’s Press and Communications offices.

Disabled toilets in Derwent, Chemistry, the Library and the Information Centre all tested positive. The larger space of a disabled toilet is sometimes taken advantage of when a number of users take cocaine together.

When contacted with the results, the University would not make any staff available for interview. In a statement the University said: “The University obviously takes this issue very seriously, and we will look into the results of Nouse’s investigation as a matter of urgency.” A University spokesperson would not comment on what steps would be taken to follow up the findings.

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