Graduate students will still be allowed to consume hard alcohol at on-campus parties, but only in the form of cocktails, and even those may only be consumed at a party at which no undergraduate students are present. Straight shots of hard alcohol are never allowed at any party.
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In an explanation posted Monday, university officials said the new rule will effectively limit the availability of alcohol for student consumption as fewer stores stock the smaller bottles than the larger ones.
The university said the policy change is “a sensible, creative solution that has roots in research-based solutions” aiming to reduce high-risk behavior.
Judge Persky claimed that a prison sentence would have a “severe impact” on Turner, who was convicted of three counts of sexual assault. Students will only be allowed to buy bottles of liquor that are a pint or smaller.
The Northern California judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has reignited debate about his ability to serve on the bench after removing himself from a separate sex-crimes case. He was subsequently sentenced to just six months in jail after blaming his attack on “party culture”.
More than a million people who were upset with Persky’s relatively light sentence for Turner have signed a petition calling for his removal. “I made a mistake, I drank too much, and my decision hurt someone.my poor decision making and excessive drinking hurt someone that night”, he said in a statement. Madden didn’t return a phone call Tuesday.
Turner was found on top of the woman behind a dumpster outside of the frat house.
Stanford spokeswoman Lisa Lapin tells NPR that her office is not aware of any other college that has instituted a bottle-size limit on hard alcohol.
“High-risk drinking is not a problem unique to Stanford, but we believe that the strategies we pursue to address the negative consequences of this behavior must be rooted in our particular campus culture and our respect for one another”, Greg Boardman, vice provost for student affairs, wrote in an email Monday to students. He instead forced Turner to get drug and alcohol treatment.
That page also apparently included a quickly deleted section titled “alcohol affects both sexual intent and aggression” that advised women they were statistically more likely to experience sexual aggression while drinking.
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Turner was banned from stepping foot on Stanford’s campus, losing his scholarship and standing as a student, but critics urged the university to take more steps to address sexual assault on campus in the wake of national discussion about rape culture on college campuses. Not only that, but some advocates say the new rule effectively reaffirms the rapist’s defense by putting the onus on victims of sexual assault.
