Stanford Bans Hard Liquor At Undergrad Parties After Brock Turner Conviction

Stanford University has banned all hard alcohol from undergraduate parties after drawing national attention earlier this year for a sexual assault case perpetrated by former student Brock Turner.

“Survivors who are under the influence of alcohol are already less likely to report in understandable fear of being thrown out of school themselves”.

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 change in policy, which “goes beyond state law requirement and applies to all undergraduate and coterminal students living in undergraduate housing”, according to a statement from Stanford, was announced by the California university on Monday.

Another university that bans alcohol is Brigham Young, where a victim of sexual assault was accused of “violating the honour code” for drinking beforehand. But when students arrive, they’ll know about the change in the alcohol policy on campus.

As of now, hard alcohol will only be permitted at on-campus events hosted by membership organizations composed of 100 percent graduate students.

Stanford University has banned hard liquor at undergraduate parties on campus, according to the Associated Press.

That’s because of a new university policy announced Monday.

Only beer and wine will be allowed at on-campus undergraduate student parties.

“Our focus is on the high risk of the rapid consumption of hard alcohol”, said Ralph Castro, director of the Office of Alcohol Policy and Education. It is estimated that more than 1,800 college students die each year from alcohol-related incidents, almost 700,000 experience alcohol-related physical assaults, and almost 100,000 experience alcohol-related sexual violence, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

And many commentators feel that Stanford isn’t addressing the problem of sexual assault at all and should be educating students on consent and putting suitable penalties in place for those who commit assaults rather than taking on drinking, which will always happen when there are groups of students. “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”, the email said. Everyone around you was not sexually assaulting me. Dauber told Kabas that she hopes this isn’t the entirety of Stanford’s response to the Turner rape. Alcohol, and particularly hard alcohol, is implicated in a variety of problems that continue to be present in the Stanford community.

“It does not emanate from the Brock Turner case”, university spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said on Tuesday. “These include alcohol poisoning, sexual assault and relationship violence, organizational conduct problems, and academic problems”.