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Originally Posted by BSUPhiSig'92
On our campus, while the University does not recognize off-campus housing ( there's only one house), the Student Code of Conduct states that student organizations may be held accountable for violations that occur on or off-campus. I'm guessing something like this allows Clarion to investigate.
As far as the housing issue is concerned, I'm certain the local authority will be taking that up with the landlord. I know when something happens with our students in town, the city expects the university to hold those students accountable.
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I would expect it is standard for just about any college to declare that a gathering of 2 or more students in any setting are deemed to "represent" the college and thus be accountable for any behavior that could bring discredit on the college. Enforcement would certainly be rare- but the whole idea is that if something gets in the paper, the college will be named too, and so as members of the college and of a college-recognized student organization- those students would be subject to punishment by the college. This is how things were at every school I have ever attended (college, high school etc.)
As for the housing issue, Greek houses are subject to all sorts of local regulations because they are considered multi-family dwellings of some sort of another. We got fined once because during an inspection the health department found out we had left our ice scoop in the ice machine. So the expectations of privacy are not quite the same in a Greek house as they would be in your own home- including the grounds on which a raid could take place to bust underage drinking.
Is anyone else aware of frequent past instances where police conducted a raid on a Greek house during a party to bust underage drinkers?
I ask because I have never seen this happen before. I have seen people get busted when the police responded to noise complaints, and at Texas I have seen police waiting in the streets to ticket anyone who stepped off private property with a drink in their hand and happened to be underage- but actual raids in Greek houses are a new thing to me.