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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 19,2004
STUDENT ASSOCIATION
The Student Association met Monday. The following were discussed.
■ Spring Elections results are available at http://www.RiceSA.com.
(See Story, Page 1.)
■ Hanszen College Senator Ian Everhart received the Senator of the
Year Award.
■ Jones College New Student Representative Julia Tucker-Huth re-
ceived the NSR of the Year Award.
■ The 2003-'04 senate, including the executive committee, college
senators and college presidents, introduced their successors in the
2004-'05 senate.
The next meeting will take place March 29 at 10 p.m. in Farnsworth
Pavilion in the Student Center.
Errata
In the article "RPC hosts first Taste" in the Mar. 12 issue, the headline
incorrectly called Taste of the Town a Rice Program Council Event. RPC
helped fund the event but was not the host.
In the article "No charges will be filed in sexual assault case" in the
Feb. 27 issue. Wiess College Master Katharine Donato's first name
was incorrectly spelled.
The Thresher regrets the errors.
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by Katherine Corley
THHKSHEK STAFF
Vice President for Student Af-
fairs Zenaido Camacho has
approved the changes to the
Alcoholic Beverage Policy recom-
mended by the Alcohol Beverage
Policy Advisory Committee late last
month. Camacho's approval is the
last step toward finalizing the
changes, which were referred to
him last week by ABPAC.
'We've found that
things usually work
much better if we really
empower the students
and give them
responsibility; they
always come forward
— Zenaido Camacho
Vice president for
Student Affairs
The Alcohol Policy will now re-
quire that any student who intends
to host a private gathering where
alcohol will be served to notify her
college's chief justice with specifics
of the party.
Another change will require each
college to clarify the distinction be-
tween public and private parties.
Because student rooms are config-
ured differently in individual col-
leges, the Alcohol Policy will now
require each college to write guide-
lines that stipulate the maximum
amount of beer permitted in a room
or suite; the maximum number of
private gatherings permitted in a
well-defined area such as a stair-
well or hall; and the maximum num-
ber of private gatherings permitted
in a single evening. The colleges
will have until April 10 to submit
their policies to the Committee of
Masters and Presidents, which will
review the guidelines.
Assistant Vice President for Stu-
dent Affairs John Hutchinson said
each college will be able to choose
how it wants to create its set of
guidelines.
"The colleges decide how to do
it, and the colleges are self-govern-
ing," Hutchinson said.
Outgoing Sid Richardson College
Chief Justice Gabe Ledeen said the
new Sid chief justice will probably
facilitate the process of creating the
guidelines while gathering input
from interested Sid students.
"While the process will most
likely be mediated by Sid's chief
justice, executive council will play
an important role in making sure
that Sid's guidelines meet the stan-
dards set by ABPAC," Ledeen, a
senior, said. "I think that given Sid's
unique layout, we can expect to see
mention of the seven floors, eleva-
tors, suites, and halls. Ideas will be
taken from any interested Sidizen,
most likely from council meetings.
The fin al vote will probably be made
by EC with oversight from the mas-
ters and chief justice."
Former Will Rice College Chief
Justice and incoming President CW
McCullagh said that as a new member
of M&P, he will be intrigued to see the
guidelines each college proposes.
"It will be interesting to see, when
these proposals come in, how they
are," McCullagh said. "There might
be a wide range, because no one
quite knows what to do yet. There are
no guidelines to say what's a strict
policy, what's a loose policy — for
instance, whether we want to say one
party per college per night or 20 par-
ties per college per night."
ABPAC Chair and Sid Master
Steve Cox said the timeline for
implementing the changes is still
evolving.
"April 10 is the hope for indi-
vidual college policies to come in,
which goes back to what's practi-
cal," Cox said. "We will learn from
presidents and chief justices this
week whether they believe April 10
is a realistic deadline for this first
implementation."
Cox emphasized that the guide-
lines the colleges decide on by April
10 will not be unchangeable.
"Come the second week of April,
if each college wishes to broaden or
narrow their guidelines, that can be
done," Cox said. "We're not saying
that the colleges have two weeks to
decide the state of a private gather-
ing forevermore."
However, Cox said each college
should have a set of guidelines well
before Orientation Week.
"The intent is to have something
clear long before O-Week," Cox said.
"We'll have the chief justices com-
ing and presenting the policy at O-
Week, and something unambiguous
will need to have arisen by then."
Hutchinson said another change
to the Alcohol Policy, regarding the
procedure for approving public
events, will go into effect as soon as
possible. This change states that stu-
dents must secure the approval of
the Wellness Center, the assistant
dean for Student Judicial Programs
and the Rice University Police
Department for any event at which
alcohol will be served, and the signa-
ture of the director of Student Activi-
ties is required for events sponsored
by a student organization.
"The committee says they would
like to implement [the procedural
changes] this semester instead of
waiting for the fall, but of course that
requires us to teach everyone what
the new procedures are,"
Hutchinson said.
Hutchinson and Cox discussed
the implementation of the changes
with incoming and outgoing chief
justicesTuesday during Hutchinson's
monthly meeting with the chief jus-
tices. The Alcohol Policy mandates
that the chief justices meet once a
month to discuss implementation or
enforcement issues.
Camacho said he. Cox and
Hutchinson will meet with the new
college presidents today to discuss
the changes. He said the process of
educating students about the policy
changes will begin immediately and
continue through the rest of the
spring semester and into the fall.
Camacho said he is pleased with
the increased responsibility the re-
vised policy gives to students.
"I think the committee did a won-
derful job uf placing the responsibil-
ity on the students, and by having a
committee at each college making
the decisions, it lends a structure to
the process that I think will improve
it," Camacho said. "We've found that
things usually work much better if
we really empower the students and
give them responsibility — they al-
ways come forward."
'With the need to
register every party, the
chief justice will be a
more visible figure in
the college
— CW McCullagh
Will Rice president
McCullagh said the changes will
promote interaction between the
colleges and their chief justices.
"With the need to register every
party, the chief justice will be a more
visible figure in the college,"
McCullagh said.
Ledeen said the changes will
provide party hosts with more spe-
cific guidelines for following the
Alcohol Policy.
"The amendments will certainly
help the chief justices to better
manage college parties and will
give all Rice students a better sense
of what is acceptable, what is not,
and where that boundary exists,"
Ledeen said.
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