The ban, which exempts parties hosted by student organizations as well as residences with 100% graduate students, means students can not consume mixed drinks at on-campus parties, while shots are prohibited campuswide, regardless of school affiliation or age. The school, however, has placed a blanket ban on any liquor bottles 750 milliliters or more, meaning students can buy “pint” sizes or smaller of hard liquor.
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Debate over whether the California judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault to a short jail sentence should remain on the bench reignited Tuesday after he removed himself from an unrelated sex-crime case he was handling. That reports is a bit problematic because it focused in part on schools that had total prohibitions on drinking, including beer and wine, but it found a correlation between banning alcohol and lower rates of heavy drinking – though they admitted that could be due “to other factors, such as self-selection of students to these schools [where all alcohol is banned]”. Hard alcohol use will be allowed at parties hosted by graduate students and only in the form of mixed drinks. Straight shots of hard alcohol are never allowed at any party.
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.
The East Bay Times is reporting that Judge Aaron Persky, who sparked outrage when he sentenced Stanford rapist Brock Turner to just six months in jail, has opted to recuse himself from the appeal proceedings of a man convicted of possessing child pornography.
More than a million people who were upset with Persky’s relatively light sentence for Turner have signed a petition calling for his removal.
“Being drunk I just couldn’t make the best decisions and neither could she”.
“The swim team set no limits on partying or drinking and I saw the guys take full advantage of these circumstances, while I was shown to do the same”, he wrote. Two other students passing by on their bicycles saw him and yelled out.
In the release, Ralph Castro, director of Stanford’s Office of Alcohol Policy and Education, discussed the thought behind this change.
“Alcohol, and particularly hard alcohol, is implicated in a variety of problems that continue to be present in the Stanford community”, they wrote.
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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. 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.
