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Originally Posted by 33girl
I know that some schools have a good Samaritan policy (for lack of anything better to call it) for people who take care of over-imbibers, underage or not. The fear with GLOs is that someone will turn it around and say having such a policy means excessive drinking is something that happens often and possibly open them up to more lawsuits. Obviously I think this is crap, but I also think it's what would happen with a written policy.
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Legally speaking, I think it's a pretty strong defense for GLOs that our undergrads assume the risks of what goes along with drinking when they do so and therefore assume the liability for the foreseeable consequences. I really don't think this young lady has much of a legal case. I'm not hearing that she was under any sort of duress when told to drink. Peer pressure, legally speaking, is not the same thing as duress. A gun held to her temple is duress.
The hazing concerns are real though and any investigation should rightly address those issues.
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