<p>Do the police patrol the campus to check for underage drinkers?
Where do frats do their stuff?</p>
<p>I think the only people that get caught for underage drinking are the idiots that make a big deal out of being drunk, ie, showing off at parties, doing things they shouldn’t to draw attention to themselves.</p>
<p>I think some RAs also monitor who is drinking and submit referrals against them.</p>
<p>If you get an underage ticket then you’re pretty dense. I’ve walked around cops drunk and they’ve never pursued (because I wasn’t doing anything obnoxious or stupid).</p>
<p>I’ve heard rumors of some colleges having random dorm checks, I’ve never actually seen or experienced this, though.</p>
<p>Typically, someone gets caught drinking by being careless: i.e. stumbling around campus drunk; during spring or winter break, leaving evidence of alcohol in the dorm; drawing attention to themselves by being a loud obnoxious drunk, even having photos on Facebook or Myspace with someone holding a drink has potential to cause trouble depending on the state and school.</p>
<p>On certain weekends, cops will do random breathalyzers to people appearing drunk along the sidewalks. Every friday, saturday, and sunday night R.A.'s will do sweeps of the dorms which involve walking down hallways, knocking on doors of people they suspect are drinking, and checking the bathrooms for drunks.</p>
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That sounds scary…</p>
<p>The police sometimes bust up big house parties, and then we have ALE (Alcohol Law Enforcement), and they go undercover sometimes to give underage drinking citations at frat and house parties. Also, our RAs make rounds every night to make sure people aren’t partying in the dorms, but as long as you’re not making too much noise you should be fine.</p>
<p>UNC is public, though, but I know at some private schools they’re a lot more lax about this kind of thing–I was once offered free beer in the middle of the student union at Duke & they have university-sponsored keggers in the middle of their quads pretty frequently…</p>
<p>Obviously Vehicle is still in high school or goes to a private school that doesn’t enforce drinking violations. If you go to a state school RAs will crack down on your drinking. </p>
<p>It definitely isn’t hard to get a violation. You can get a violation if an RA happens to see facebook pictures of you in a dorm room drinkin. You can get a violation if you are making noise on a weekend, RAs know students drink in the dorms so they patrol the halls looking for noise. If they hear a bunch of people in the room they’ll knock on the door and tell you to keep it down, if there is an alcohol smell coming off the room (when you answer the door) then they’ll take all your alcohol and write you up.</p>
<p>State schools have more a party reputation so they crack down to help their image, also most people are already getting a deal on their education there (cheaper and more people therefore individuals matter less). Private schools either encourage partying or do little to stop it. They either are trying to build a more social/fun reputation or don’t want to screw over families who are throwing down 50k to send their kid there (also less people enrolled).</p>
<p>My friend at UCI-PD told me easily:</p>
<p>“You only get caught for alcohol is you make a show about it”</p>
<p>'nough said.</p>
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<p>that’s insane! i’ve never experienced anything like this. </p>
<p>our RAs don’t care at all, only come into your room during the 2 semester inspections, etc. you can be as drunk and loud as you want and the RAs won’t do a thing unless one of your neighbors complains.</p>
<p>Here’s my experience:</p>
<p>I’ve never been harassed by cops outside because I’ve never done anything to bring attention to myself while drunk. I don’t know anybody who’s been arrested on a sidewalk unless they were publicly urinating or something.</p>
<p>I’ve been at a few house parties that have been broken up, 100% of the time due to noise complaints. Every time they’ve let everyone leave and then fined the people that owned the place.</p>
<p>In the dorms you aren’t going to get arrested for drinking except in extraordinary circumstances (don’t bring pony kegs into the dorms…) although if you’re being loud/obvious you’re eventually going to get caught and get some sort of violation. Depending on the school and offense this can lead to anything from getting expelled to a slap on the wrist, so look it up. In general if you’re quiet and not walking around drunk in the halls causing trouble you will be fine. As far as walking back to my dorm the same thing applies, don’t bring attention to yourself and you’ll be fine. I had a notoriously tough-on-drinking RA one year and I walked past his door several times so drunk that I probably could hardly walk straight, but I wasn’t loud or falling down or throwing up so they never cared.</p>
<p>Overriding theme? Don’t bring attention to yourself and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Don’t walk outside with open containers or call attention to yourself and you’re good.</p>
<p>Here, the police break up house parties all the time for noise complaints but they never give out MIPs (minor in possession’s) unless you’re being a total jerk to them about it. I’ve only seen this happen once in my four years here. They also usually don’t fine anyone unless they have to come back again (don’t know how many times I’ve heard “If I come back tonight it’s a $300 fine… and if I come back again, you’re going to jail!”) Just surreptitiously put your drink down and walk away if the po-po shows up. you can do like I do at big parties that are obviously going to get broken up at some point: put your drink in a soda bottle (as long as it isn’t beer, that’s pretty conspicuous). Usually I go with Dr pepper and a great heaping of rum mixed in. NOT getting completely trashed helps out too; you can be a little tipsy but as long as you behave well enough when the police are there, they have no reason to suspect you of anything. Oh, and s.t.f.u. and let the people who live there handle it, no butting in to argue. </p>
<p>Basically, as long as you aren’t stumbling through a public area drunk as all hell, or driving drunk, or verbally/physically assaulting anyone, you’re good. The only thing the police are really strict about here are fake IDs; if the alkie police find you in a bar with a fake (or if they find you in a bar without a fake and no marks on your hands, OR if they find you trying to buy alcohol at a store with a fake), you’re getting arrested. End of story.</p>
<p>At BU, the RAs go on a witch hunt for underage drinking in the dorms. I was written up for being in a room with an empty bottle. No one in the room was drinking.</p>
<p>At my current school, the RAs dont give a damn unless you’re being loud and walking around with alcohol. I actually partied with my RA last year.</p>
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<p>I’ve gone to a state school and while I haven’t lived on campus, I’ve had friends that have. No RA is going to come into your room if your door is locked and you’re drinking with a few friends. It’s not like they have “drunk” monitors every night knocking on dorm doors with breathalyzers.</p>
<p>The only way for them to know is if you make it obvious (holding alcohol, having it visibly in your room, doing something stupid in public, or causing a lot of noise). Of course house parties are a target, everyone knows that.</p>
<p>I’ve drank every night since I was 18 and have yet to get a ticket (I’m 21 now).</p>
<p>Well, my dorm may have been an exception. It was practically a police state. In other dorms on campus students lived the American dream when it came to partying in some cases, they could do whatever they want, probably what it is like to live in Mexico.</p>
<p>My school is pretty lax about this kind of thing. Actually, the new alcohol policy reserves the right to give out warnings to underage students. Probably the most trouble I’ve heard of people getting in trouble is with ALE rather than RA’s and police. As long as you aren’t being an idiot, you shouldn’t worry about anything.</p>
<p>My college is a dry campus, so alcohol is absolutely not tolerated. The campus cops can’t randomly search people’s rooms, but if they look in an open room and can see alcohol out in the open, or go to someone’s room about a noise complaint and see alcohol out, they can just come in and search the entire room. I was there once when they did it, and they ended up confiscating this guy’s broken slingshot and charging him with possession of a weapon.</p>
<p>For the most part, though, the cops here don’t want to write people up, and the guy who disciplines those who’ve been caught doesn’t either. They know people are going to drink, you just have to be smart and not be loud or obnoxious about it.</p>
<p>I was at a frat at another school one time and a campus cop walked in. They were passing around beer, so for obvious reasons, I was freaked out, but I guess at some or all schools with frats, they expect that they’ll have parties, so they just supervise and make sure it doesn’t get out of control.</p>
<p>You only get caught if you’re being stupid.</p>
<p>Most RAs are pretty chill because they know people under 21 drink. They only write up the morons.</p>
<p>Our RAs were only allowed to search our rooms at certain times, once a semester for inspection and then only other time was if there was a complaint. Also, during inspections, they are not allowed to open anything that is closed, such as the closet, desk drawers or mini-fridge, so you could have a six-pack in the fridge, a keg in the closet, and a stash of weed in your drawers and still not have to worry about anything. </p>
<p>Once, my RA (who I had known through a friend before she was my RA) saw an empty vodka bottle in our room and said, “You know technically I should write you up for that… but whatever. It’s empty.” We were not allowed to have alcoholic displays in our rooms though, which means you can’t have posters with Miller Lite or whatever on them just up in your room. </p>
<p>Nobody here actually parties in the dorms though, everyone always goes to frats or off-campus apartments/houses to drink.</p>
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<p>It’s funny how different schools are; at BU, they didnt care if you had Miller Lite posters or Beer Pong posters, but if you had any bottles lying around, you were screwed.</p>