“We must create a campus community that allows for alcohol to be a part of the social lives of some of our students, but not to define the social and communal lives of all of our students”, Greg Boardman, vice provost for student affairs, wrote to students.
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Bottles smaller than 750 milliliters are allowed for students 21 and older, but the alcohol must be contained and stored in the original bottle in which it was purchased from a licensed establishment, the university said. If a student is found to have larger bottles, the student could be expelled.
“Our intention is not a total prohibition of a substance, but rather a targeted approach that limits high-risk behavior and has the backing of empirical studies on restricting the availability of and access to alcohol”, according to the policy update.
The case of a former MA high school star athlete sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two classmates is drawing parallels to that of former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, who got just six months in jail for a sexual assault conviction.
The judge, Aaron Persky, followed a recommendation by a county probation department to sentence Turner and became the target of a recall campaign.
More than a million people who were upset with Persky’s relatively light sentence for Turner have signed a petition calling for his removal. He instead forced Turner to get drug and alcohol treatment. “I made a mistake, I drank too much, and my decisions hurt someone”.
She said there will also be a rally September 2 at the Hall of Justice in downtown San Jose, the day Turner is expected to be released from jail.
Turner, 20, sexually assaulted an intoxicated woman who passed out behind a trash bin after a fraternity party. Two other students passing by on their bicycles saw him and yelled out.
One of the women submitted a victim impact statement in which she said she did not think jail time was necessary, Leydon said.
Chain’s lawyer, Brian Madden, has said his client “worked hard” to turn around his life since his 2014 arrest, including receiving alcohol abuse counseling.
Not long after it went public, the new alcohol policy-which the school denies was a response to the Turner saga-was promptly criticized for missing the big picture.
Screenshots of the deleted language have drawn more criticism for the university, accusing it of blaming alcohol rather than aggressors for incidents of sexual assault.
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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. University officials did not immediately return requests for clarification of why it deleted that section of its policy.
