Dartmouth Sorority Party Shut Down: Underage Drinking

exlurker · #1 01-16-2006, 02:40 PM

A party at Dartmouth's Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority house was shut down by the sorority after an undercover New Hampshire Liquor Commission officer arrested an intoxicated underage student. Campus Safety and Security helped the sorority close down the party. The January 16 '06 issue of The Dartmouth has an article and a picture of the sorority house:

http://www.thedartmouth.com/article....=2006011601010

Kappa Delta Epsilon is a local sorority.
The article helpfully gives a description of the New Hampshire Liquor Commission undercover officer.

Tom Earp · #2 01-16-2006, 04:37 PM

Wow, if that is a Pix of The Local KDE House, it is very nice!

This is really a great way to treat a group who were trying to do the right thing in calling the Local Safety Authourities. So just what this statement say to Fellow Students and Greeks? Dont do the rightous thing!

I have delt with Liquor Control in both Missouri and Kansas and they can end up being real dicks who think they are real Law Enforcement People. Some even carry weapons and that is exremely scarry to Me!

Funny though, it sounds like the Sig Eps have better friends at hand!

33girl · #3 01-16-2006, 05:03 PM

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Originally posted by Tom Earp
This is really a great way to treat a group who were trying to do the right thing in calling the Local Safety Authourities. So just what this statement say to Fellow Students and Greeks? Dont do the rightous thing!

I totally agree. If it's really a Good Samaritan thing in place, they shouldn't go and bust the house...that's the whole point....

LOL at describing the officer.

Tom Earp · #4 01-16-2006, 05:35 PM

Yep, and I hope this Plick enjoys His Job or was He forced into it and was He of age? Seen this to many times before with send ins!

ilikehazing · #5 01-18-2006, 12:33 AM

Underage drinking...at a fraternity party?

Unheard of.

DeltAlum · #6 01-18-2006, 12:39 AM

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Originally posted by ilikehazing
Underage drinking...at a fraternity party?

Unheard of.

And still illegal.

ilikehazing · #7 01-18-2006, 01:20 AM

Didn't read it was at a sorority house.

I'm glad we don't have to put up with stuff like this where I'm from.

NebraskaDelt · #8 01-18-2006, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by ilikehazing
Didn't read it was at a sorority house.

I'm glad we don't have to put up with stuff like this where I'm from.

And where exactly are you from where you don't have to deal with underage drinking? Canada?

Tom Earp · #9 01-18-2006, 08:33 PM

No, never never land!

ilikehazing · #10 01-19-2006, 01:23 AM

I was referring to the officers coming in and finding underage drinkers. That my friends, is ridiculous.

DeltAlum · #11 01-20-2006, 10:26 AM

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Originally posted by ilikehazing
I was referring to the officers coming in and finding underage drinkers. That my friends, is ridiculous.

Ridiculous it may be, but it's their job. Underage drinking is against the law -- otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as "underage" drinking.

The other big problem, and a reason it's in this particular forum, is that it is a main reason for Risk Management problems and through the roof insusrance rates.

Rudey · #12 01-20-2006, 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Ridiculous it may be, but it's their job. Underage drinking is against the law -- otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as "underage" drinking.

The other big problem, and a reason it's in this particular forum, is that it is a main reason for Risk Management problems and through the roof insusrance rates.

They can just do that without a warrant?

-Rudey

ArizonaDelt · #13 01-20-2006, 12:28 PM

They did it here at the U of A at Kappa Sig house. Undercover officers pulled out four underage girls drinking without so much as identifying themselves. There's a big scandal out now about how the police may have acted wrongly, but they were all arrested.

Tom Earp · #14 01-20-2006, 04:30 PM

Depending on whether a House is owned by The School or not, unless it is written in a Lease if School owned, Law Enforcement cannot come into any abode, unless:

They are invited in.
Have had a call for a violatoin of some sorts.
See something with their own eyes that is a violation.
There is a danger for people inside abod.

If they just walked in without identifying themselves, they were in the wrong. They would have to have a search warrent and presented it at the door for entry.

Sending an undercover in a house can sometimes be construde as entrapment.