Support Greek Life Push for a Good Good Samaritan law At Your Campus

tchi252 · #1 08-06-2007, 11:31 AM

I know that all of us greeks have really bad stereotypes out there and i hope alot of chapters are fitting those stereotypes because thats what college is about. lol j/K anyway as an SGA Senetor and Future SGA President i wanted to let you know about the single college rule that helps out greeks more than any other student. It's The Good SAMARITAN LAW.

It's a verision of the french law that was adapted by some college campuses all over the nation. And it's simple. Pretty much the way we have ours set up is If your having or hosting a party, or are at a party or social event, and someone gets hurt or is unresponsive due to (drugs, alcohol, etc....) that when the ambulance comes or any type of help comes the cops cannot issue citations and tickets or arrest anyone for partying or underage distrubution and/or consumption. So it ennables fraternities and sororities to seek help when having a social event without having to worry about getting in trouble with the school or nationals.

Interested bring the good Samaritan law up to your schools SGA.

AlphaFrog · #2 08-06-2007, 11:36 AM

We had the Good Samaritan law (I don't think it was spesfically called that) for the dorms at my college, but I don't think it applied to off-campus parties, etc. Since fraternities and sororities at my school owned their own housing, the campus rules wouldn't have applied.

Personally, I do think it's a good idea.

shinerbock · #3 08-06-2007, 01:30 PM

I'm not sure whether it was an official provision or not, but at my school if you were intoxicated, you could ask a police officer for a ride home and they wouldn't ask questions (your age, etc). Of course, it wasn't a drunk bus service, but if you were around campus and needed a ride, supposedly they were willing to do that. Then again, I always liked our cops, as people pulled over for DUI's often got a "park it and call a friend to get you, or we're taking you to jail" choice.

AlphaFrog · #4 08-06-2007, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by shinerbock

Then again, I always liked our cops, as people pulled over for DUI's often got a "park it and call a friend to get you, or we're taking you to jail" choice.

Yeah, I like people who let other people take the chance of killing innocent victims too.

macallan25 · #5 08-06-2007, 02:49 PM

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Yeah, I like people who let other people take the chance of killing innocent victims too.

I have a feeling the officer would make sure the friend was sober. I've had that happen before. Don't see the big deal.

AlphaFrog · #6 08-06-2007, 02:58 PM

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I have a feeling the officer would make sure the friend was sober. I've had that happen before. Don't see the big deal. Not sure why you would roll your eyes at that.

I'm not talking about the friend who comes and picks the person up. I'm talking about the person driving drunk in the first place. If it's well-known that DUI offenders get off without even a warning, it's just incentive to keep repeating the behavior.

Drunk driving is STUPID and DANGEROUS. People who do it are INSENSITIVE, SELFISH IDIOTS. If more people who actually drank and drove killed themselves in accidents, the world would be a better place. The fact is, 80%of the time, they end up killing the innocent person in the other car and walking away without a scratch. There is absolutely no excuse for driving drunk, there are ALWAYS alternatives. They may be inconvient, but I don't care. People who drink need to be responsible for their own actions.