Post by Vince524 on May 30, 2017 12:10:51 GMT -5
www.thecollegefix.com/post/32829/
The short version is a group of underage students, already intoxicated, tried to crash the fraternity party, which was open only to brothers and their friends over 21. One of them was severely intoxicated and couldn’t stand up under her own weight, so the brothers let her rest on the porch.
Her unconscionably irresponsible friends took advantage of the brothers’ concern, sneaking into the party to continue drinking after they told the unknown drunks to get lost. The brothers were too busy looking after the girl to keep out these terrible human beings, who pilfered the liquor after they got in.
When the girl started vomiting on herself and then became unresponsive, the brothers called campus emergency services. The EMTs said they saved the life of this unknown girl.
‘She was much more interested in playing prosecutor’
Over the next five months, the morally repugnant apparatchiks who run Duke’s student conduct process decided the fraternity was guilty of letting underage students drink because the girl’s despicable friends snuck into the party and stole their booze while the brothers tended to their friend.
One of them was Valerie Glassman, assistant dean of the Office of Student Conduct:
A week after the initial meeting [with fraternity leaders], Glassman wrote in an administrative resolution email obtained by The Chronicle that she “determined by a clear and convincing standard that the fraternity is responsible” for violating the alcohol policy. …
Glassman’s finding was not because of the intoxicated girl for whom they called EMS, but because Glassman believed the girl’s friends—who were underage—obtained alcohol from the party, therefore violating the alcohol policy, Johnson explained. …
[The fraternity leaders] said Glassman seemed to consider them guilty before their administrative hearing meeting even began.
“She was much more interested in playing prosecutor,” [said one]. …
“Even when you do something 100 percent right, they’ll bend their policies to try to hang you with them.”
Duke is supposed to offer amnesty to students who call an EMT in an alcohol situation that otherwise violates Duke policy, but a former student government official told The Chronicle that amnesty is often not applied to groups that host parties.
The link to the original story
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/05/we-were-innocent-by-their-own-terms-and-then-they-decided-to-throw-out-their-terms
If I understand it correctly, the college is supposed to have a policy that they don't punish you if say you have a party with underage drinking, if it's only discovered because you called for help for a student in distress. The idea being that you don't want a dead student because people didn't want to get in trouble.
In this case, the girls who snuck in, and were told to go away, were the reason the frat got in trouble. I can't seem to find any indication that the girls who snuck in and drank while underage were punished.