Alcohol Enforcement Patrol Stats 2015

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1. Care to release the names of the transports and violations, and the address of the loud parties?

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   1. To bu mom…. you will get the ambulance bill if student is transported to the hospital

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   2. I am sure you realize that it would be unethical, maybe even illegal, to publish the names of people medically transported. Generally, people’s medical matters are their own confidential business.

      As far as releasing data about citations and responses, I’m not sure those are public records (which can then be used for journalistic purposes). I know the records become pullblic if an arrest is made, but usually arrests don’t happen in these cases.

      Regardless, reporting this information is useless. It is common knowledge where these infractions usually happen. Publishing names would only serve to shame and humiliate people, which is probably your goal – a rather sadistic and absurd one at that. I’m sure you’d be mortified if your child’s name were published for making one small, alcohol related mistake in college and then that information persisted on the internet – publicly available – for the rest of their life.

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2. Forget morals, it’s a HIPPA violation if those students were taken to BMC. Considering these students are adults, are they not allowed to privacy?

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3. My advise to all is to have moderation, it is not fun to go overboard with alcohol, it is rather the opposite. I am sure many parents have made great efforts to be able to send their children to college and even wealthy people expect their children to be successful. Do you really need alcohol to have fun? The answer is a loud NO, I remember the days of my youth and the mistakes I made because of alcohol. If I knew then what I know now, I am sure my life would be different as far as academic success is concerned. Think before you act and it will save you a great deal of regrets. God bless all of you.

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4. Does BU not have anything more important to focus on? Top institutions, including Washington University in St. Louis (ranked far above BU), have wet campuses and “open door” policies in dorms.

   Instead of pretending like students aren’t going to drink alcohol, why don’t we start promoting SAFE drinking. This can be compared to abstinence only education vs. safe sex education.

   This is idiotic.

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   1. Doesn’t BU promote safe drinking by requiring freshman to do alcohol education?

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   2. hmmmm, First, if BU students were capable of “safe drinking” there would be no issue. Perhaps theuniversities ranking far abouve BU have students more dedicated to their studies than to partying hence the higher rank, just sayin’…. Regaring level of importance of things to do, probably yes, the campus police would more than likely much prefer to be tending to other tasks than hauling puking undergrands on a crying binge off to the hospital, if only they had that choice. Think about it this way: if the Brookline Police, Boston Police and all of the other surrounding area police depts. have time to monitor, apprehend & publicize infractions in the local papers (which include certain druken disturbances aka disturbing the peace) I’ll wager that the BU PoPo also have the time to monitor, aprehend & publicize infractions from the student-overrun neighborhoods. Particularly if it’s the local residents calling them for help. In my neighborhood we have a BPD liason and a BC campus police team dedicated to dealing specifically with problems caused by BC students. The even have a program in which students can do community service in lieu of jail time. That said, BU campus police aren’t hiding in the bushes hoping to ambush students- because they have nothing better to do. They’re doing what they do because they’ve been called and it’s their job. I’m sure they’d rather be doing just about *anything* else than scooping up an undergrad who’s peed all overhimself about to puke all over the officer – So, you are right- it is idiotic

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      1. Great post Holly. Couldn’t agree more.

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   3. Wake up! Enforcement has been the only thing shown to address this problem and this problem is a public safety issue. Education and public service announcements don’t work! Drinking and addiction is costing our country money on an annual basis. There are medical costs and time lost on the job. Families are suffering and this is not something to be taken lightly or brushed under the rug because “this is what college students do.” I applaud BU for focusing on this issue!

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