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Thanks to the College’s new alcohol policy—approved last week by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—he can place the blame on the student organization’s leaders and tell the parents those leaders will be punished. What he probably will not say is that if those same policies were not in place their son or daughter might still be alive...
...hope a hypothetical situation like this will never happen. But the new alcohol policy has made it more likely. By reshaping the amnesty policy so that student group leaders are held responsible for all alcohol-related incidents at student group events, regardless of whether or not an ill student has been taken to UHS, the College has erected a dangerous obstacle to students voluntarily bringing their friends to the hospital...
...policy is especially ironic since UHS released a study in early May that reported a steady fall in the number of alcohol-related hospital visits over the past few years. Even more promising, the students who enter the hospital have lower blood alcohol levels, meaning that students are taking their friends to UHS well before their condition becomes life threatening...
Ryan M. Travia, director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services and a member of the Committee on Social Clubs which designed the new policy, told The Crimson that the lower levels are largely due to Harvard’s amnesty policy, which does not levy penalties on students who seek medical attention or students who bring their friends to the hospital...
...Committee on Social Clubs—the ad hoc body responsible for the alcohol policy revision—ignored Travia’s statement to the detriment of the student body. Rather than focus on the positives of the College’s new amnesty policy, this committee—unsurprisingly commissioned by the General Counsel of the University and not the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services—centered its attention on two near-death incidents last fall...