Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Banned from
Undergraduate
Parties
By Hannah
Wenzelburger
Stanford University
Private Research University
Mission Statement:
Its nature, that of a university with such seminaries of learning as shall make it of the highest grade, including mechanical
institutes, museums, galleries of art, laboratories, and conservatories, together with all things necessary for the study of
agriculture in all its branches, and for mechanical training, and the studies and exercises directed to the cultivation and
enlargement of the mind;
Its object, to qualify its students for personal success, and direct usefulness in life;
And its purposes, to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization, teaching the
blessings of liberty regulated by law, and inculcating love and reverence for the great principles of government as derived from
the inalienable rights of man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Lehigh University
Yale University
January 2015
Dartmouth
Stanfords Ban on Hard Liquor
Talk started in March of 2016
...create a campus
New policy announced August of 2016 community that allows for
alcohol to be a part of the
Distilled liquor, spirits, and hard alcohol in social lives of some of our
containers 750 mL or larger are prohibited
in all campus housing students, but not to define
20% ABV is the cut off by standard
the social and communal
lives of all of our students.
Beer and wine are still allowed at - Greg Boardman, Vice Provost for Student Affairs
undergraduate events, but NO HARD
LIQUOR!
Drinking Stats
http://chronicle.com/interactives/alcohol_response
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2015, December ). College Drinking Fact Sheet. Retrieved from
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/CollegeFactSheet/CollegeFactSheet.pdf
Pettit, E. (2016, August 23). Stanford Bans hard liquor from undergraduate parties. Retrieved from The Chronicle of Higher Education,
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/stanford-bans-hard-liquor-from-undergraduate-parties/113667
Stanford University Communications. (2016, March 9). President and provost discuss student alcohol use, seek campus dialogue on new solutions. Retrieved
Stanford University Communications. (2016, August 22). Stanford updates its student alcohol policy | Stanford News. Retrieved from Stanford Report,
http://news.stanford.edu/2016/08/22/stanford-updates-student-alcohol-policy/
Thomason, A. (2015, January 29). Dartmouth will ban hard liquor on the campus, president says. Retrieved from The Chronicle of Higher Education,
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/dartmouth-will-ban-hard-liquor-at-parties-president-says/92963