<p>I was wondering If a student lives in an alcohol-permitted dorm for those over the age of 21, can a underage student get in trouble if their of age roommate has alcohol. I mean if they are not drinking at the time. If the RA/ or school or whoever finds out that there is alcohol in the room, can the underage student get in trouble? also, can the of age student get in trouble, because technically, they can have the alcohol in the room, and the are not technically supplying it.</p>
<p>That sounds like a question for the school. I would think they wouldn’t put underage kids in the same room with of-age kids if it was a problem, but I’d ask to be sure. Maybe the of-age kids aren’t supposed to have alcohol on campus anyway?</p>
<p>I don’t see why the underage student would get in trouble if the of-age student has the alcohol. If the school really wanted to crack down on underage drinking, it wouldn’t be putting an underage student in an alcohol-permitted dorm anyway? The very function of an alcohol-permitted dorm is to be able to have alcohol in it, right?</p>
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Then why have alcohol-permitted dorms in the first place? That defeats the function of the dorm.</p>
<p>I missed that in the OP. Sorry.</p>
<p>I highly doubt it.</p>
<p>At my school, the over 21 roommate could even be consuming the alcohol in the presence of the under 21 roommate, as long as the under 21 roommate wasn’t consuming it. They both had a right to the room: the over 21 roommate was allowed to have alcohol in the privacy of their own room/apartment, and the under 21 roommate was allowed to have access to their own room/apartment at all times.</p>
<p>At DD’s school, both had to be 21 for there to be alcohol in the room legally.</p>
<p>It depends on school policy. Check with the school. At D2s school, yes…at D3s school, no.</p>
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Even that depends on the state:
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<p>It varies by school. At my D’s school, over 21 were allowed a certain amount of alcohol at a time-I think 1 six-pack or something like that. She was allowed to drink it in front of under 21, but of course could not buy it for them! At another school she looked at, it was absolutely not allowed.</p>
<p>School won’t put an under-aged student in an alcohol permitted dorm. They have Insurance Risk Managers and lawyers.</p>
<p>In terms of being disciplined for an of age roommate having alcohol in the room, policies differ by school.</p>
<p>I lived with roommates who were under 21 while I was 21+ and my university’s rule was that students aged 21+ couldn’t have alcohol in spaces shared with those under 21. In my dorm, everyone had their own rooms and shared bathrooms and common areas, but the rule applied to traditional dorms as well. There were no restrictions on the amount of alcohol students aged 21+ could possess in their personal rooms as long as they didn’t have any kegs.</p>
<p>One thing I suggest college students learn is which parts of their dorm room can be legally searched by an RA, university employee, or police officer without their consent or a warrant. For example, at my school RAs were not allowed to open drawers, personal refrigerators, or closed bags/coolers.</p>
<p>Glido, not true. It’s done all the time.</p>
<p>“School won’t put an under-aged student in an alcohol permitted dorm. They have Insurance Risk Managers and lawyers.”</p>
<p>Not true. I was standing right there when the RA for D’s dorm laid out the rules for her and her roommate. D was 21, roommate was 18. Alcohol was allowed for D, not for roommate or any other underage person. Consequences for buying it for these underage kids was very serious though. D tended, if she ever had the funds, to just go to one of the local bars with the older kids rather than put herself in a situation where she’d be asked to share with the younger kids.</p>
<p>At another school, student could be written up or even asked to leave if any alcohol was found in the dorm at all. It varies by school.</p>