I was thinking that and biting my tongue (fingers?). At least she wasn't in charge of risk management.
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SRMom,

Good for you. Right on. Up to now, my family is blessed with kids who have made the "right " choices- in high school and in college. This incident at UGA gives me chills b/c I hear about the pressures. I will prayerfully hope for the best for these kids and their families, and prayfully keep my fingers crossed that my kids, and yours, continue to make the right choices.

i happen to have know the girl my entire life and discussed the matter with her family. she did NOT test positive for cocaine when given a drug test at the station and she's VERY upset about all of this because she didn't do it. her father is suing not only the red and black, but the police. it's stupid for y'all to judge and discuss people's problems when you have no idea who they are or even what really happened.

You do not have to test positive to be charged with felony possession. All you have to do is have it in close enough proximity that you could be in control of the substance.

If the officer lied about seeing her snort the cocaine, has her family told her she was an idiot to stand there and watch her friend or date snort up? You may or may not agree with the charge, but it is the law.

And, read the article again, I just did. The article does not say that Tamplin or the other guy tested positive for cocaine: It says the bottle they were holding tested positive. Daddy can sue the Red and Black all he wants. They were reporting the incident and the facts as listed by the officer. Even if the officer is mistaken, it's called 'absence of malice'.

That night at the Classic Center, there were two fraternties having celebrations - Delta Tau Delta and Sigma Chi. I was at the Delt function and it was pretty tame. Most people left after the speeches and after the meal. I walked past the Sigma Chi event on the way out and it still looked like it was hoppin at 11 when I left. Maybe the two that were arrested attended the Sigma Chi event, thus making the guy that was arrested a Sigma Chi...? I sure hope not for their sake, they've had quite a bit of trouble this past year in various chapters..

Are we really posting articles about getting arrested for blow?

This isn't out of the ordinary. Coke is everywhere.

i concur.

I believe the article says something about probation for 1st time offenders.

I deal with consequences of Georgia's First Offender Act every day (multiple times). When a record check is done, the arrest will appear while they are still on probation. Once they have been successfully discharged, the arrest is "sealed" only to be disseminated to criminal justice agencies for certain purposes, including probate courts if they wanted to purchase a firearm or applying for certain cj jobs.

It is not sealed on the court records which is public record.

As an FYI, certain crimes don't qualify for FOA (including DUI). The law keeps changing as to what offenses may be disseminable after completion, i.e., certain sex offenses if the applicant is working with children, mentally challenged or elderly.

I feel sorry for them, their families and their orgs. Temptation is too great at such a young age.

What the hell? Were you at the Sigma Chi event? Did you see them there? Just because the Sigma Chi party was still "hoppin at 11" when you left doesn't mean jack.

Except the article specifies that they were at the KA Party, as does the title of this thread?

If you look at the article, the officer was working security for the KA party. The article itself does not specify if the male student was a member of KA or any other fraternity that was having a function at the Center. The title of this thread is misleading.

I'm merely speculating like the rest of GC...

I dont think it really matters at this point if they started at another party and ended up at the KA party. They were caught doing whatever it was they were doing at the KA party. KA will most likely be the group that gets into trouble (or the most trouble).

The assumption that they may have started at the Sigma Chi party because in your opinion it happened to still be hopping when you left is stupid. That's my opinion and i'm sticking to it.

Of course I'm not assuming cocaine was present at a party just because it still had a lot of people at it! I was simply saying that the bust happened at or near the Classic Center (right?) and involved at least one member of UGA's Greek community. I happened to be at that location earlier that night and two fraternities were holding events there (that I know of). I can only speculate if it may have possibly involved Sigma Chi because the Delt party was broken up by that point. That's all I was saying. :rolleyes:

ETA: The article says they were arrested at the Classic Center.

According to the article, they were caught in a hallway of the Classic Center, not at the KA party. The KA party was being held in the building as (as were other fraternity parties, as SthrnZeta, who was there that night, has noted), but they were not at the party itself when they were caught.