<p>I live in a different world. All the dorms at my D’s University are “substance free” dorms. You aren’t even allowed to have EMPTY alcohol containers in your room.</p>
<p>All the dorms at my D’s University are “substance free” dorms.
Even if they are 21? What’s the rationale?</p>
<p>emeraldkity4,</p>
<p>“Alcoholic beverages are not permitted in any residence hall. Alcohol bottles/containers may not be kept in a residents room for any reason, including decorative purposes. Unauthorized use of intoxicating beverages on university property or at university-sponsored activities, including, but not limited to, intercollegiate and intramural athletic events, is prohibited. Residents are responsible for any alcohol found in their room. Students are also responsible for all state laws regarding alcohol, including public intoxication and providing alcohol to minors. When alcohol or other substance abuse is suspected, or alcohol poisoning or intoxication requiring assistance of university or emergency personnel occurs, students are subject to referral to the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities for evaluation. RATIONALE: This policy enforces state law for students under the legal drinking age. The majority of students living in the residence halls are under the legal drinking age. Empty bottles may appear to have alcohol in them causing discrepancies in the alcohol policy.”</p>
<p>“weed won’t kill her. It doesn’t leave a person sloppily impaired and therefore at a higher risk for sexual assault like alcohol.”</p>
<p>Do you have a source for that? Not the killing part, the part about risk of sexual assault. I’m not sure why that would be. I get the sloppiness of vomiting or ****ing yourself, or maybe the higher risk of actually losing consciousness. </p>
<p>“I also have never heard of “butt huffing” weed to get super high really quick.”</p>
<p>Maybe not BUTT huffing, but surely there are many ways folks try to get higher faster and more efficiently with pot too.</p>
<p>* RATIONALE: This policy enforces state law for students under the legal drinking age. The majority of students living in the residence halls are under the legal *</p>
<p>Doesn’t really answer my question - both my Ds took a year off before college as did many of their friends, although my youngest moved off campus for sophomore year. It wasn’t unusual to be twenty as a freshman & twenty-one as a sophomore. </p>
<p>However I see that Galveston county has a huge alcohol problem. 60% of traffic fatalities are alcohol related.(National average is 30%)
They must indeed feel desperate. :(</p>
<p>"RATIONALE: This policy enforces state law for students under the legal drinking age. The majority of students living in the residence halls are under the legal </p>
<p>Doesn’t really answer my question - both my Ds took a year off before college as did many of their friends, although my youngest moved off campus for sophomore year. It wasn’t unusual to be twenty as a freshman & twenty-one as a sophomore. </p>
<p>However I see that Galveston county has a huge alcohol problem. 60% of traffic fatalities are alcohol related.(National average is 30%)
They must indeed feel desperate."</p>
<p>Galveston County is party central - it’s one of the major beaches in Texas. But this school is not ANYWHERE NEAR Galveston County, TX. However - they’ve been working really diligently to overcome the “party school” image. If you’re 20, you can live off campus, if you so choose, fairly inexpensively. There are private, all-expense paid apartments VERY CLOSE to campus - extremely short walking distance. So if it’s a huge deal for someone, they can just do that.</p>
<p>I don’t think this is a thread about which is more harmless: pot or booze. </p>
<p>It’s a thread about a members of an NCAA team offering illegal substances to a minor who is visiting on a recruiting trip. If it were my kid, the school and team would be off our list and the coach would be told e-x-a-c-t-l-y why.</p>
<p>I’m not a prude. I have a current college student and a recent graduate, and I won’t sit here and tell you they didn’t drink. For that matter, I went to a college that was known for its work-hard-party-hard mentality. </p>
<p>But for team members to thumb their noses at their coaches and the rules and offer pot to a high school visitor tells me all I need to know about their attitude and sense of responsibility. No, thank you, we would spend our tuition dollars and 4 years of my kid’s life elsewhere.</p>
<p>Crommete, so if my daughter took an empty wine bottle and decorated it like with bling and collage and flowers, it would be breaking a rule?</p>
<p>Egad…</p>
<p>Seahorsesrock, </p>
<p>Well if she took the label off and put bling all over it, how would they know it was a wine bottle? If it’s dry on the inside with no residue, I doubt they would make a big deal - but if it has a wine label on it, then yea…could be a problem. They’d probably just make her get rid of it though.</p>
<p>Oh for heavens sake, someone offered her a joint. Do we even know if the person who offered was on the team?</p>
<p>I’m am suprised the daughter told the mom. Kind of a tattle tail in my opinion</p>
<p>With those kind of rules seems a wine bottle is a wine bottle…what if she decorates it with labels? I’m not trying to be annoying but an empty bottle? Guess kids said or it’s a vase…but to penalize for an empty bottle seems like no proof at al</p>
<p>No big deal. It’s not like they spring the rules on you after you sign the contract. If you don’t like the rules, you could get an apartment.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t consider a minor kid telling her parent about being offered drugs at a school sanctioned event tattle taling. I would call it NECESSARY AND FORTUNATE.</p>
<p>seahorses, you do realize your last sentence didn’t make any sense, right? Are you ok?</p>
<p>I am saying having an empty bottle means nothing…but I guess jids have said, oh the empty bottle is a vase…</p>
<p>It’s pot at a college. And I would call it tattling. Sorry but I would. </p>
<p>And not necessary.</p>
<p>Tattling? Really? A student telling her parents that people she was around at a college visit (potential future teammates) were breaking the law? Part of deciding to break the law is needing to recognize that people may find out about it (they made that pretty easy) and that you may be punished for it. This student was not sworn in to some special little compact to keep it a secret.</p>
<p>Even if she had been sworn to some compact. Yes, it was a college, but she is not an adult…yet. At my house all compacts are off when it comes to telling mom about people offering you substances. They are making decisions about where she will spend the next 4 years of her life, for the first time on her own. Of course her mom needs to have all the information.</p>
<p>Seahorse: the whole purpose of the visit was for the student to evaluate the school. Of course that student is going to discuss what transpired with their parents, who appear actively involved in the search process. The point here is that the “offering” made the student uncomfortable which is not something you want be on a school visit.</p>
<p>cromette – I should have used different words in that sentence. Yes, I agree with you about even a “sworn compact”.</p>
<p>Marisan, I figured you did. I was reinforcing your point. :)</p>
<p>@Seahorse, if my daughter had told the coach it would definetely have been tattling. She told us as part of her “debriefing” (along with “The cafeteria breakfast was really awesome” and “The campus doesn’t seem as large as I thought it would” and “My overnight host said to stay away from Professor X’s classes”). I agree with above posters including those whose reaction is it’s actually great that you know this about the team, in that it should be taken into consideration in our evaluation of the school.</p>
<p>And yes, it was a team member who offered it. Although I don’t think it was offered to all the recruits. Maybe she should feel flattered.</p>