<p>I know, for example, that drug paraphernalia is banned yet everyone (almost) smokes weed. How lax are they about enforcing other rules, like no skateboarding on campus? I wanted to bring a longboard.</p>
<p>hehe. IMO, the rules are not really enforced that much. </p>
<p>CSOs primarily promote safety. However, if your room smells like weed or you are obviously drinking, they will write you up. Skateboarding doesn’t seem to be enforced too much since I occasionally see skateboarders going down hills, but the campus is not really skateboard friendly with all the hills. </p>
<p>“Everyone” doesn’t smoke weed, contrary to what many believe about the campus. At least half of my floor, myself included, did not smoke weed.</p>
<p>I didn’t really mean “everyone”, I just meant it’s widespread despite the seemingly strict rules.</p>
<p>fwiw, paraphernalia is not banned campus wide, I believe the rules vary by college. My frosh year Porter changed the rules and CSOs couldn’t take glassware/etc away anymore. Dunno what they’re doing these days, as I don’t live on campus.</p>
<p>It’s really not super strict. Don’t be stupid, don’t walk around the halls with open alcohol and it’s not an issue. For skateboards, the campus police are known to write tickets for skateboarding on campus, I see maybe 1-2 people carrying boards in a day, but <em>carrying</em> them, almost never riding.</p>
<p>Skateboarding
Campus police are VERY, i repeat, VERY uptight about skateboarding. Apparently they are this way because they’ve had a number of incidents where longboarders have hit people. I watched two ****tards on longboards bomb through a group of people and cars at the Bookstore/Cowell intersection at its most crowded time of the day… and one of them completely NAILED some poor girl. It looked like he seriously hurt her, and boy the crowd didn’t think too highly of the guy on the board. I’m a skateboarder and would never have done such a thing, but unfortunately every skater in a sense serves as an ambassador to the sport, and a few idiots give us all a bad name. </p>
<p>Now, given the myriad of winding roads throughout the place it’s easy to remain somewhat hidden, and most people do not care whatsoever. …but running into the campus police is bad news. They’re hostile and will give you one warning, but after that the fines are HUGE. A friend’s friend had $1000 fined over FOUR tickets. In 3 years I have never gotten a ticket, but you have to be careful, inconspicuous, and smart about it. The Core road downhill from the Physical Sciences building is a lot of fun and fairly ‘safe.’</p>
<p>Drugs
Paraphernalia is fine… I’ve never seen it be a problem. I do think, however, that the campus is getting a lot stricter with things… the sacred (safe) “knoll” where RAs and CSOs wouldn’t go is not what it used to be, since I’ve seen CSOs up there a handful of times. RAs have great power, in that if it smells like weed… thats potentially enough to get you written up. Even if you do get caught with weed or booze, you’ll get written up and the cops will not likely be involved. CSOs are assigned to clusters of colleges (i.e. Cowell/Stevenson), and official ‘tolerance’ ABSOLUTELY varies by college. (For example, alcohol storage policy if your roomate is 21+) I lived in Cowell and they seemed to be a lot more uptight about things compared to Kresge, but that could be a result of just one CRE. Also, any college’s apartments are substantially ‘safer’ than the dorms.</p>