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From: scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: RA's and drug use
Message-ID: <392@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 23:15:51 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.392
Posted: Mon Feb 24 23:15:51 1986
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In article <214@nyit.UUCP> mark@nyit.UUCP (Mark Smith) writes:
>> My question to you people out in net-land is this: Have other universities
>> tried a policy like this? Have they been successful, or have policies like
>> this one fallen by the wayside?  Let's here your opinion.
>
>     In my opinion, the State University of New York at Stony Brook
>     has a greater emphasis on underage alcohol policies.
>     I believe it to be a reaction to the new 21 law.  As you may or
>     may not know, NY state has just passed a new drinking age law.
>-- 
>				Mark Smith
>				NYIT Computer Graphics Laboratory
>				Old Westbury, New York
>				...{philabs,sbcs}!nyit!mark

The University of Rochester has taken rather an interesting approach to 
drug and alcohol use in the dorms.  They have adopted a "closed door" policy - 
whatever you do behind the closed door of your room is your business,
and is regarded as being in your own home.  The RAs will not come into your
room if locked (although they have the key, for accidental lockouts), and
neither will security - they won't check during fire alarms, etc.  They do 
reserve rights in the case of bomb threat, actual fire, and other natural
disasters, and did come in over Christmas break and unplug any electrical 
appliances.

Therefore, you could be doing anything in your room from refining drugs to
running a house of ill repute (however small :-)), and *as long as you kept
your door closed*, your 'rights' would be respected.  The same goes for 
alcohol - at the beginning of the year, the RA told us to keep it out of
the hall, and if there was a keg on the hall, he wanted to know about it
(he still could be held libel if someone got drunk and broke his neck falling
down stairs, and it's kinda hard to ignore a quantity like that).

Sean Colbath
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