U of Oklahoma bans drinking in dorms and fraternities

[EagleChick19]

Originally posted by 33girl
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.

As far as I know, Lock Haven is the only one to ban smoking in living areas. I don't know about the other 13 schools.

In the fall of 2002, the administration put out a survey which students filled out. In that survey, they found out that 60% of students don't like smoking. So they put out this decree stating that you can't smoke in the dorm (rooms included) or on-campus apartments (we have 2 different on-campus apartment complexes, Campus Village and Evergreen Commons.)

Although, you can still smoke outside any building on campus.

[Little E]

My campus banned handles ( of hard liquor) and kegs, but other than that you could carry anything, at any age. Pot was pretty tolerated, though other drugs weren't as much.

[exlurker]

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

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

An aricle in the Dec. 2 U. of Oklahoma student paper mentions that OU's president pointed out that the dorms at Oklahoma State U. (a different school) are dry. So it looks like the concept of a dry campus at the U. of Oklahoma isn't exactly going to shake the foundations of everything that higher education in Oklahoma stands for.

I guess if there are OU students or other Oklahoma citizens who just can't stand the idea of a dry campus, they could contact their state legislators and the governor to see if they could get a bill introduced, passed, and signed that would overturn the policy of the OU president and regents.

[AlphaSigOU]

From a former student at OU (back over 20 years ago):

When I started as a freshman, those under 21 could possess and consume 3.2 pisswater in their dorm rooms and common areas of the dorm floor; those over 21 could possess and consume 3.2, "strong beer" (over 3.2%) and hard liquor in their dorm rooms and common areas.

When Oklahoma state law changed three weeks after the fall 1983 semester started, the rules were changed prohibiting consumption of any alcoholic beverage in the common areas. Those over 21 could keep alcohol in their rooms, though the rest of us underclassmen could do so as well - it was enforced by a "wink-wink-nudge-nudge" system. The RA's were too busy issuing noise and visitation citations than confiscating booze, unless it was blatantly in the open.

I hate to admit it, but OU's Greek community in those days was awash in alcohol; closed and open parties were graded by the number of kegs bought by the chapter for the function. The local beer distributors sometimes rolled out a keg truck for really large parties like Sigma Chi Derby Days; even the beer cups had Greek letters (except for FIJI) printed on them. My house, being one of the smallest on campus with its own housing, regularly bought a keg every weekend, two if it was football season. Our open party, the "Bayou Bounce" was a 6-8 kegger; smaller mixers, such as functions with the AGDs or the KDs (the rest of 'em didn't wanna socialize with the "motorcycle gang" and "apartment dwellers" ) were one or two-keg affairs.

When my chapter rechartered in 1997, the restrictions on alcohol purchase and consumption were drastically changed. Having little knowledge of the new rules, I got my ass chewed out by a national officer for bringing in a case of the cheapest, nastiest champagne on the face of the earth - a tradition from the olden days. No big deal, though... it stayed hidden in the house manager's apartment until they left before the corks flew.

Being much older - and wiser - about alcohol consumption, I watched my newly-initiated brothers get thoroughly shit-faced while carefully nursing a beer.

Eventually, it was going to come to this new rule making the Greeks and the dorms totally dry; but all that's going to do now is drive drinking underground. Or force some chapters to go off campus to get sloshed.

[kstar]

Being at OU now...

Most upperclassmen do not live in the dorms, given that OU is predominately greek, and most houses have a one year live in requirement, that is usually the sophmore year. The upperclassmen that live in the dorms are usually either a) athletes b) exchange students or c) scholarship kids that can't afford to live elsewhere.

Alcohol was allowed in rooms where all occupants (in the case of doubles or suites) were of age.

Alcohol will still be allowed in the apartments, otherwise they are going to have a hell of a time renting them.

Technically, OU had a dry campus previously, as alcohol is not allowed to be sold on campus, and was not allowed on the campus proper, only in the dorm areas.

~K~

[BlairLynn]

yeah.. so.. jan. 18th.. we go dry... city council raised hell about it.. it means there will be more parties out in the city.. in neighborhoods.. more DUIs .. more noise complaints.. MIPs.. etc. But it is going to happen.. it sucks.. I wish we weren't going dry.. but I suppose it was inevitable due to all the incidents just this past semester... Oh well..

[epsilon99]

I don't really know what the physical layout is at the University of Oklahoma but isn't it safer for people to be drinking at fraternity parties if they can walk there rather than driving to bars and risking accidents? That's the case at my school. its much safer to have people on campus than driving around downtown.

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by epsilon99
I don't really know what the physical layout is at the University of Oklahoma but isn't it safer for people to be drinking at fraternity parties if they can walk there rather than driving to bars and risking accidents? That's the case at my school. its much safer to have people on campus than driving around downtown.

OU's campus plan is quite large; the Greek areas are divided into 'North Greek' and 'South Greek', with the dividing line being Lindsey Street. The dorms and South Greek fraternities and sororities are all south of Lindsey, while much of the academic buildings and some older established fraternities and sororities are north of it.

Back when I was an undergrad, my house was the furthest north on North Greek... it was a long trek by foot back to the dorms.

[Lady Pi Phi]

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.

As far as I know, it's still permitted. I honestly don't think there are as many 18 years olds as we believe. I suspect many of them are taking time off between highschool and university.

Also, it seems like an awful lot of people are driving to the bars. When I was at Guelph, that didn't happen. There were a few reasons; 1) most people didn't have cars 2) most people wanted to drink, so to not get stuck with DD or have to force some else to be DD, everyone split the cost of a cab 3) you could take public transit and it would drop you outside most of the bars 3) you could take the magic bus. The cost was paid for in your tuition, why not use it 4) Boo Radley's (RIP ) and The Palace provided a school bus some nights to take students to the bar. You paid for it in your cover.
My entire time at university I was driven to the bar twice. I just don't understand why people feel they need to drive to the local bar?

ETA: Here's what it says about alochol in residence at Guelph

Can I bring alcohol into residence?

YES. We allow those students of legal drinking age in Ontario to drink in their rooms. Beer must be purchased in single-serving cans. Beer bottles, kegs, mini-kegs, funnels and shooters are not allowed in residence and will be confiscated if found.

Drinking games are also not permitted. This was taken of their Kemptville College site. I couldn't copy and past off the UofG residence handbook because it was in PDF format.

[33girl]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Can I bring alcohol into residence?

YES. We allow those students of legal drinking age in Ontario to drink in their rooms. Beer must be purchased in single-serving cans. Beer bottles, kegs, mini-kegs, funnels and shooters are not allowed in residence and will be confiscated if found.

They left out party balls.

Just sayin'.

[aephi alum]

Alcohol was permitted in residences at my alma mater. One floor in my dorm (infamous for heavy drinking) had a kegerator, threw several beer bashes every year with kegs, played drinking games, etc... In the late '90s the administration started cracking down, though, so I don't know what the current rules are.

I spent a summer at Trinity University in San Antonio about 10 years ago. They have some pretty strict rules... some dorms are wet, others are dry (all the freshman dorms are dry). In the wet dorms, you can only have beer and wine, only if you are 21+, and you can only consume it in your room. (Most dorm rooms have balconies - I don't think you can even take your beer onto the balcony.)

A Trinity student told me a great story, though... He and his suitemates threw a party where they had trash can punch. During the party, the RA and a couple of his buddies came knocking. "Open up! We know you have booze in there!" So they figured they were busted... until the RA added, "If you give us some, I won't write you up!"