U of Oklahoma bans drinking in dorms and fraternities - Page 2

PhoenixAzul · #16 12-02-2004, 01:40 AM

Otterbein is dry. No alcohol in any building (including fraternities and sororities). Also, no smoking. Up until this election, the entire town of Westerville was dry, you could not buy alcohol anywhere in the Westerville limits.

KSigkid · #17 12-02-2004, 09:02 AM

At Boston U. I know alcohol was allowed for those of age, but only up to a certain limit (one 6-pack and/or 1 liter of alcohol). That included all on-campus housing, dorms and apartments. I know there was a pretty large amount of upperclassmen living on campus, either as RA's in the dorms or in on-campus apartment-style (as I did for my last three years).

It's a huge move to ban all drinking on-campus; I'd like to see the reaction from the U. of Oklahoma student body.

Lady Pi Phi · #18 12-02-2004, 09:19 AM

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Originally posted by Taualumna
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ampus_drinking

I'm surprised that alcohol isn't banned in dorms already.

Alcohol wasn't banned at U of G. We were allowed alcohol in our dorm rooms provided we were of legal drinking age and that there were no beer bottles in the room.

kappaloo · #19 12-02-2004, 10:00 AM

Waterloo's only rule is "no glass in the halls". So as long as your pour your beer into a cup you're fine. In fact, floor crawls were rather popular when I was there. If they caught you as an underager, using you'd get chewed out by the Residence Life Coordinator if your Don really felt the need to report you but most of the time that didn't happen.

However, drugs were a different issue. Any drug use (including and most often pot) was grounds for expulsion from res. And criminal charges. I always found the difference in policy rather humourous.

texas*princess · #20 12-02-2004, 10:06 AM

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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Alcohol wasn't banned in the dorms at the state school I attended because people who were of age lived in the dorms, and thus should be permitted to have alcohol.

same with both schools i've attended

33girl · #21 12-02-2004, 10:52 AM

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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Where I attended, about 30% of dorm residents were 21. There is no reason to prohibit them from having alcohol in their room, and to do so would likely violate their civil liberties.

Welcome to Pennsylvania, home of violated civil liberties!!

None of our state school campuses (this doesn't include Penn State) are permitted to have alcohol ANYWHERE. (except maybe a president's reception, but that's another story) It doesn't matter if you're 21 or not.

GP - did Wisco have a 21 drinking age before the Federal Highway Funding act or did they up it under that duress?

Munchkin03 · #22 12-02-2004, 11:08 AM

We were required to stay on-campus three years, and most people ended up staying on that 4th anyway. We didn't have a "dry dorm" or fraternity policy at all.

GeekyPenguin · #23 12-02-2004, 11:29 AM

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Originally posted by 33girl
Welcome to Pennsylvania, home of violated civil liberties!!

None of our state school campuses (this doesn't include Penn State) are permitted to have alcohol ANYWHERE. (except maybe a president's reception, but that's another story) It doesn't matter if you're 21 or not.

GP - did Wisco have a 21 drinking age before the Federal Highway Funding act or did they up it under that duress?

We upped it under that duress - and still not very willingly. Marquette also allows alcohol in rooms of those who are of age and I'm pretty sure they always did because my mom used to drink beer while she studied in the dorms. We didn't go to 21 here until 1986.

Taualumna · #24 12-02-2004, 11:50 AM

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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Alcohol wasn't banned at U of G. We were allowed alcohol in our dorm rooms provided we were of legal drinking age and that there were no beer bottles in the room.

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Originally posted by kappaloo
Waterloo's only rule is "no glass in the halls". So as long as your pour your beer into a cup you're fine. In fact, floor crawls were rather popular when I was there. If they caught you as an underager, using you'd get chewed out by the Residence Life Coordinator if your Don really felt the need to report you but most of the time that didn't happen.

But that's because most students were over 19. Now that Grade 13 is gone, and most frosh are under 19, I'm pretty sure that lots of schools have banned alcohol in rez.

Queen's had a no beer bottle rule as well.

shadokat · #25 12-02-2004, 12:04 PM

Definitely no booze in the dorms at PA State Schools, although, at most of them, by the time you're 21, you live off campus anyway. It's usually cheaper than the dorms or upper campus apartments.

As for smoking, we could smoke in our rooms, provided you requested a smoking room. Otherwise, you had to go outside.

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Originally posted by 33girl
Welcome to Pennsylvania, home of violated civil liberties!!

None of our state school campuses (this doesn't include Penn State) are permitted to have alcohol ANYWHERE. (except maybe a president's reception, but that's another story) It doesn't matter if you're 21 or not.

GP - did Wisco have a 21 drinking age before the Federal Highway Funding act or did they up it under that duress?

EagleChick19 · #26 12-02-2004, 12:18 PM

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Originally posted by shadokat
Definitely no booze in the dorms at PA State Schools, although, at most of them, by the time you're 21, you live off campus anyway. It's usually cheaper than the dorms or upper campus apartments.

As for smoking, we could smoke in our rooms, provided you requested a smoking room. Otherwise, you had to go outside.

About smoking in SSHE schools....

Lock Haven banned smoking in your dorm rooms and on-campus apartments in the fall of 2002.

kappaloo · #27 12-02-2004, 12:20 PM

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Originally posted by Taualumna
But that's because most students were over 19. Now that Grade 13 is gone, and most frosh are under 19, I'm pretty sure that lots of schools have banned alcohol in rez.

Queen's had a no beer bottle rule as well.

Waterloo hasn't. Waterloo also doesn't have a dry orientation either. We're rather progressive in that manner.

Students are considered adults here regardless of age. Since adults are allowed to have booze, it is allowed in res.

If you are underage and are caught, then you have to deal with the concequences. In res, the concequences are small since they are only possibly harming themself. In the rest of campus (especially where underage drinkers threaten the campus' licence) the concequences are much worse.

Rudey · #28 12-02-2004, 12:24 PM

They should pass a law making the overweight students go to the gym and diet.

It will help the campus look better, the guys will appreciate the girls with the tighter tushies, and the students will be healthier and have less of a risk of illness.

-Rudey

GeekyPenguin · #29 12-02-2004, 12:25 PM

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Originally posted by Rudey
They should pass a law making the overweight students go to the gym and diet.

It will help the campus look better, the guys will appreciate the girls with the tighter tushies, and the students will be healthier and have less of a risk of illness.

-Rudey

If it means I don't have to feel another fratty potbelly, I'd do it.

33girl · #30 12-02-2004, 12:44 PM

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Originally posted by EagleChick19
About smoking in SSHE schools....

Lock Haven banned smoking in your dorm rooms and on-campus apartments in the fall of 2002.

Was that all the schools or did they each do it individually?

Personally, I think it's somewhat hypocritical to ban smoking when asbestos is falling onto your bed, but I digress

We had the opposite, at least this is how I remember it - you weren't allowed to smoke in your room, you had to go in the TV room instead. I think the theory was to keep people from smoking in small spaces where others (possibly non-smokers) had to sleep.