UGa will try calling boozers/druggies parents

hoosier · #1 02-04-2005, 10:26 PM

UGA to report booze violators
Parental notification approved

By KELLY SIMMONS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/04/05

ATHENS — The University of Georgia will begin calling parents if their underage students commit some alcohol-related offenses, under a policy approved by the president's Cabinet on Thursday.

The Parental Notification Policy allows school officials to contact parents after a student under age 21 is found to have violated the campus drug or alcohol policy for a second time. The school also will call parents if there is significant property damage related to alcohol or drug use, if a student's health or the health of others are in danger, or if a student's behavior negatively affects the learning environment at UGA.
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UGA's student conduct regulations prohibit the unlawful possession, use or distribution of alcohol and other drugs by students and student organizations.

President Michael Adams said the policy is an attempt to rein in escalating problems associated with alcohol use by students. Adams has said previously he is troubled by recent incidents, including one in December in which a student was severely burned while playing a drinking game.

Senior William Flynn Miller IV, 21, sustained second-degree burns when a lantern caught a bottle of 190-proof alcohol on fire.

"This is not done, I think, by the administration in a sense of any kind of retribution, but is clearly out of a growing concern for the health and well-being of students," Adams said.

UGA's action mirrors that taken by other colleges and universities.

Georgia Tech imposed a parental notification policy in fall 2000. That policy allows the university to call parents when a student under 21 violates campus policies on alcohol and drugs, when students endanger themselves or others, or when the dean of students determines that future violations would likely result in a student's being removed from campus housing or expelled from school.