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Alcohol enforcement rock solid ■ Police say they cite for MIPs every weekend and will continue to do so until underage drinking stops By Clayton Cone forthe Emerald The University and the city of Eu gene are ratcheting up their efforts to change the college drinking culture. “If you are a minor and are caught with alcohol or have consumed al cohol and we can detect it, you will be cited,” Eugene Police Officer Ed ward Tsui said. Tsui is assigned to the campus division. “That's a rock bottom line. We go to parties every single solitary weekend and we do enforcement every weekend, and you can guarantee that from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. we’re running from par ty to party to party.” Last year the EPD issued 1,118 ci tations for “Minor In Possession” on campus or within approximately 10 blocks of campus, Sgt. Rick Gilliam said. An MIP carries a maximum fine of $250, he said, but is not con sidered a crime. Also, after state and county asses ments are added, the total can top more than $300. The Office of Student Life has fo cused specifically on the “high-risk” drinker, who is identified in surveys as a male who has had at least five drinks or a female who has consumed at least four drinks in a row within the two weeks prior to the survey. High-risk drinkers at the University number more than 3,000, said Jean Blanchard, program coordinator for New View 2000, an anti-alcohol/drug abuse program run by Student Life. Blanchard said her office applied for the two-year grant that funds New View 2000 because of the sig nificant number of high-risk drinkers on campus and in recogni tion that high-risk drinkers create “secondary effects” that disrupt the lives of individuals around them. Many students have reported to her office that high-risk drinkers de crease their sense of safety and “mess up” their living space, she said. The effects of high-risk drinking include serious incidents, as well. “The majority, if not .all, the as saults on campus are alcohol-relat ed,” Tsui said. “It is rare to have a sexual assault or a regular assault that doesn’t have one party or both parties intoxicated or drunk. Alco hol is basically the fuel for the fire. ” "■s^sS Emerald Hosts and partygoers alike must adhere to strict alcohol guidelines, or pay the price. In an effort to combat the drinking problem last year, Student Life or ganized non-alcoholic alternatives, especially during the winter term, Blanchard said. A New View 2000 brochure from last year lists films, musical per formances, open-mic nights, a fash ion show and dance parties in Janu ary and February. But Blanchard said the grant has not been renewed, and those types of activities will be produced this year only to the extent that Universi ty' approves funding for them. In both 1997 and 1998, riots involv ing 100 to 250 people grew out of Hal loween parties in die West University neighborhood and became out of con trol, Gilliam said. In 1998, police arrested 12 people during the late-October incidents and charged them with riot-related crimes, he said. In an effort to provide alternatives to drinking on Halloween, the Stu dent Life offered students a Monte Carlo night, an all-night breakfast and a screening of the “Rocky Hor ror Picture Show,” Blanchard said. At that same time, the EPD can vassed the West University neigh borhood prior to the Halloween weekend and talked with residents about public safety in an effort to step up the department’s visibility, Gilliam said. Halloween 1999 was riot-free, he said. The University also has set up in centives for Greek fraternities to be alcohol-free, said Shelley Suther land, assistant director of student development. “Last year, Vice President [of Ad ministration] Dan Williams agreed to help chapters get Ethernet con nections and to support fraternities trying to get live-in adults [house di rectors], if they voted for and demonstrated compliance with the substance-free issue,” she said. A separate program, Select 2000, involving nine sororities and two fraternities to-date, aims to reduce substance abuse as part of its focus on scholarship and ethical leader ship, Sutherland said. At the start of this year, five frater nities — Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sig ma Chi, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Up silon and Theta Ghi — will have agreed to be substance-free and have no alcohol in their building, she said. 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