Spring Break
Underage drinking
Part 1
Lindsay Bryant
Issue date: 5/3/07 Section: The Gold Fold
That number is 73, according to the University Police Department for the calendar year of 2006.
This number compares to 39 in 2005 and just 20 in 2004, the year before the opening of Campus Village - a number high enough for students living on campus to show a concern for rowdy and sometimes dangerously intoxicated minors.
Although deterrents hit students at all sides, from UPD to California law, resident advisers are the first line of defense.
Still, this does not stop minors from drinking in their rooms or gaining access to alcohol from friends, parties and local liquor stores.
The policy at SJSU states that students will be referred to the Office of Judicial Affairs upon the violation of the law.
Roberts and a few friends gathered to discuss underage drinking in on-campus life. A friend who wished to remain anonymous said, "If you deny it, you can get off getting in trouble."
"That's happened before," said freshman Jenna Shulz. "If you say 'it wasn't mine' then usually nothing happens."
But Roberts and a few friends were caught twice earlier this semester. Once for posting a photograph on the networking Web site Facebook holding alcohol. The second time when Roberts and some friends met in her suite in Campus Village to decide what to do that evening, when a resident adviser heard the word "alcohol" through an open window.
The adviser busted the girls for violation of the alcohol policy, even though Roberts said they kept to themselves.
The adviser ordered Roberts and company to dump out the alcohol and watched as they did so.
The consequences are steep for "those who don't deserve it" some students say.
"They assume that everyone here is not going to drink. This is college, c'mon," said Kelly Hamilton, a freshman majoring in business administration and marketing.
Hamilton and her suitemate Jenna Schulz expressed that the punishments do not fit the crime.
If students plan to drink despite being of age, Roberts questioned how safe it is to send drunk students into downtown San Jose instead of the security of their own bedrooms.
This number compares to 39 in 2005 and just 20 in 2004, the year before the opening of Campus Village - a number high enough for students living on campus to show a concern for rowdy and sometimes dangerously intoxicated minors.
Although deterrents hit students at all sides, from UPD to California law, resident advisers are the first line of defense.
Still, this does not stop minors from drinking in their rooms or gaining access to alcohol from friends, parties and local liquor stores.
The policy at SJSU states that students will be referred to the Office of Judicial Affairs upon the violation of the law.
Roberts and a few friends gathered to discuss underage drinking in on-campus life. A friend who wished to remain anonymous said, "If you deny it, you can get off getting in trouble."
"That's happened before," said freshman Jenna Shulz. "If you say 'it wasn't mine' then usually nothing happens."
But Roberts and a few friends were caught twice earlier this semester. Once for posting a photograph on the networking Web site Facebook holding alcohol. The second time when Roberts and some friends met in her suite in Campus Village to decide what to do that evening, when a resident adviser heard the word "alcohol" through an open window.
The adviser busted the girls for violation of the alcohol policy, even though Roberts said they kept to themselves.
The adviser ordered Roberts and company to dump out the alcohol and watched as they did so.
The consequences are steep for "those who don't deserve it" some students say.
"They assume that everyone here is not going to drink. This is college, c'mon," said Kelly Hamilton, a freshman majoring in business administration and marketing.
Hamilton and her suitemate Jenna Schulz expressed that the punishments do not fit the crime.
If students plan to drink despite being of age, Roberts questioned how safe it is to send drunk students into downtown San Jose instead of the security of their own bedrooms.
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