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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on Wednesday moved one step closer to holding student group leaders accountable for hazing and alcohol consumption within their ranks...
...Faculty Council, the highest governing body of FAS, approved revisions to the Handbook for Students that would make leaders of recognized and non-recognized student groups subject to review by the Administrative Board if their members or guests experience “serious harm” resulting from excessive alcohol consumption or hazing at the organization’s gatherings...
Although the amnesty clause applies to all students, Director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services Ryan M. Travia said he does not believe the potential policy will protect group leaders if students became intoxicated from ritualized drinking or hazing during events sponsored by the clubs...
...hold student leaders accountable comes despite ongoing opposition from Undergraduate Council (UC) leadership. The UC supports the amnesty policy and the measures intended to combat hazing, according to Student Affairs Committee Chair Mike R. Ragalie ’09. But members are concerned that the policy on drug and alcohol abuse at parties is worded too vaguely and leaves club officers vulnerable to arbitrary disciplinary action...
...decision, the Supreme Court ruled that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate" as long as they don't cause "substantial disruption" at school. Courts gave students even more rights over the next decade, but the rise of drugs and alcohol on campus made judges increasingly sympathetic to schools. In the '80s, the Supreme Court cut back the rights granted in Tinker, telling schools they could limit student speech that was "vulgar and offensive" or "sponsored" by the school in, for example, a student newspaper...