<p>when i visited nu in the fall, the tour guide claimed they have a very dry campus and the rules are monitored pretty closely, can anyone back this up? I know a lot of campuses say they're dry but it's not hard to find a party. Is this the same for Northeastern?</p>
<p>NU isn't a dry campus, 21+ students are allowed to have a limited amount of alcohol. In my experience, they don't enforce it unless there is a loud or out of control party.</p>
<p>what if you're not 21?</p>
<p>hahaha, "dry campus". </p>
<p>Sure, there are rules about drinking in dorms. So don't drink heavily in your dorm room and then run into your RA in the hall and tell them how tttttoooottttallly sloshed you are. People occasionally get written up or if caught several times, there can be disciplinary actions. Usually people only get in trouble if they're doing something stupid, and a lot of people just go to off-campus parties where there aren't RAs anyway.</p>
<p>I've never had any problems, surprising since my floor was out of control all freshman year.</p>
<p>I've run into a couple of incidents. 1.) last year in my dorm room we got in trouble for having alcohol in the dorm. Depends where you live/how your RAs are. The honors housing RAs were extra vigilant compared to the stetson RAs. I know our RAs, when we needed to sign something/hear about something, came on friday nights as like 11. Seemed like they were looking to write people up.
2.) Off Campus parties can also get broken up by police. USUALLY just the people who own the apartments get in trouble because the police don't want to have to file a bunch of reports on students drinking. Police breaking up parties is not uncommon. Just be smart. If you live in an off campus apartment and most of the people who live there are students, it is fairly safe to have loud music on friday night. However if you live in an apartment where there are elderly people/working people, they probably want their sleep on friday night after a long week of work so blasting your subwoofer isn't the best idea (been there, done that). Lastly, if you are having people over in your dorm, the main reason the RAs find alcohol is because the music is too loud. As long as you don't say like "alcohol, drunk, pregame" etc within earshot of an RA and your music is quiet, you should be fine. RAs will knock on your door and say your music is too loud and all they need to see is a ping pong ball and they can basically search your kitchen (that is what happened to us last year). </p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Yeah, my experience has been pretty much what RedSox said. The RAs come because you're loud. If it's after quiet hours, which some dorms have, then the RA probably will show up. The RAs need "cause" to come inside, and hearing a pingpong ball or seeing red plastic cups counts as cause.</p>
<p>Like the people before me have said, if you keep it down, then they have no reason to suspect anything unless it reeks of alcohol.</p>
<p>this is no state school, chances are if you want to find a party you'll need to make friends with an upperclassman to either buy for you or to host parties to which you can go. if you want a party hard school, look to UNH or other state schools, from personal experience i can tell you that UNH is crazy on weekends, just crazy... where as at NU you have to deal w/ proctors(who really aren't that bad) as well as both NUPD and BPD... the campus is not dry as one may think but at the same time it is not a ragger every weekend</p>