Thanks
Clayton for Hosting.
Everyone introduced himself or herself. Frank Jolly
from ARP was new to the group. Update on Stephanie and
Kendall, her new baby. She should be back at work part
time during the 1st or 2nd week in June.
Communications
-- Social norms ad has been run in Technician weekly
throughout the school year. Most recently it has been
a color 1⁄4 page ad. Chris reported that when
he quizzed students while giving presentations this
past year that many of the students were able to report
the numbers reported in the ads and on banners.
Education
-- Health Promotion has purchased MyStudentBody.com,
an online software alcohol program. This program will
be available at no cost to all students during the next
school year. It will give brief feedback so they can
judge their alcohol habits.
Policy
-- Hopefully this summer there will be some movement
in policy discussion. The ACC is strongly looking at
a no pass out policy for football. This will take the
pressure off the university as the decision will be
made for it from an outside source.
Intervention
-- Betsy discussed brief intervention feedback and has
begun to use it with students.
Technician
article: Alcohol zero tolerance article shows that we
need to provide the campus community with the information
concerning noise/nuisance ordinance. Dr. Stafford is
chairing a task force to address town/gown relations.
Some Raleigh residents involved in the meetings he’s
been to are agitated that noise/nuisance violations
occur due to college students and that sometimes police
response hasn’t been enough. RPD has hired an
officer to address this issue full time, and this has
fueled some student complaints as they feel that they
are being unduly picked on. Complaints from students
all of the have arisen because of the zero tolerance
policy. In past it apparently has been more lenient,
however officers have already had the power to cite
and arrest right off the bat. Students need to be educated
to this fact, that a warning has not been a right, but
a privilege given at an officer’s discretion.
James Reed suggested that an interview with Capt. Poteat
would have been more beneficial for the Technician.
Tom Earnhardt pointed out that many times its students
calling in complaint.
This
led to discussion of what information to get out to
off campus students via a door hanger/pamphlet. Some
examples from UNCW, University of Florida, and SUNY-Albany
were given out in the minutes package. We want police
and students to be able to pass out the information
as a preventive effort. University of Florida includes
City codes/ways to keep safe. UF tends to have most
outreach to community. There was some discussion on
perhaps grading off campus housing as well. It would
be good to have campus activities working with off campus
Council. There is some talk in Student Activities that
there may be such a group starting. It is key that information
be agreed upon by law enforement and students and that
students help with wording and design. It is important
that dialogues take place that iron the way between
law enforcement and students so students know that how
they act (or do not act) can aggravate the charges.
Helpful officer has discretion to do full custody arrest
underage or open container ticker is being nice. But
any violation of city code can be jail.
Another
discussion took place concerning BAC as Health Promotion
is seeking to buy Alco Sensors for RPD and Campus Police.
These sensors are solely for traffic. Andy Orr mentioned
that knowing a person’s BAC for clinical information
would be great.
It
was also mentioned that corrective measures are important,
even though human nature is to not want to be mean.
Something that stings is often important. Tom Earnhardt
mentioned “Judge’s son story” where
a son called in, trying to pull his father’s weight
to get out of a legal situation. The judge told his
son he was going to have to stay the night in jail as
a consequence. This often corrects the negative behavior.
How to be a good neighbor brochure.
Covered
everything on list @ Melrose training for CA’s.
Next
Meeting June 2nd |
