The Student Assembly publicly released its response on Friday to recommendations released last November by the College Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs.
The Assembly-prepared report will be presented to Dean of the College Lee Pelton Wednesday. He will make final decisions on the alcohol policy this spring.
Among the Assembly's recommendations is a proposal to mark the identification cards of students who have violated alcohol policies -- the marked cards could then prevent those students from entering parties at Greek houses.
The original CCAOD report, which recommended a drastic reduction in kegs and the Safety and Security monitoring system at Coed Fraternity and Sorority sponsored events, was met unfavorably by a majority of students when released to the College last November.
"The purpose of the counter report wasn't to say 'We don't want Safety and Security at our parties,'" said David Gacioch '00, who chairs the Assembly's student life committee. "The purpose of the report was, 'How can we work together to make Safety and Security monitoring work best for students?'"
The report is a compilation of recommendations from more than 400 students on campus -- including both members and nonmembers of CFS organizations. The report also contained recommendations from the 2001 Class Council.
The 15-page report reviews each of the CCAOD recommendations point by point and emphasizes individual accountability over monitoring policies.
In addition, the report recommends the implementation of early alcohol education programs for freshmen during orientation week.
Paul Holzer '00, a member of the student life committee, said, "Year after year, freshmen tend to be the most irresponsible drinkers -- the ones exposed to high risk drinking. We need members of the Greek system talking about the dangers of drinking during freshman orientation."
The counter report questioned the effects of Safety and Security monitoring fraternity basements during CFS events and suggested more student-friendly ways of implementing the monitoring policy.
The report recommended that Safety and Security "be utilized to help monitor CFS houses only under certain circumstances which imply a cooperative working relationship with the CFS houses to help them control alcohol, rather than in a fashion which tends to pit CFS against [Safety and Security] in an adversarial setting."
The report also questioned the effectiveness of a CCAOD-recommended keg ban during Sophomore summer.
"Although there are certainly fewer 21-year-olds on campus during the summer, between non-sophomores who stay on campus and sophomores who are of legal age, enough eligible students may well be on campus to merit one or more kegs using the current formula," the report stated.
The report commended the CCAOD for implementing its first recommendation which suggested a reduction of outpatient charges for treatment of intoxicated students at Dick's House.
Fearing that exorbitant costs deter intoxicated students from obtaining medical help, the CCAOD recommended a fee reduction. This recommendation was implemented last September, when fees were lowered from $500 to $150.
The counter report suggested this recommendation was met with "overwhelming approval by students" and asked that the charges be further reduced.
