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. ”
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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.
Sororities have always agreed that
their buildings would be substance
free, Sutherland said, and last year
elected not to co-sponsor with fra
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