[81alum]

What should Stanford do? Eliminate all social events with alcohol?

Some campuses have done exactly that.  When 90% of your undergraduates are underneath the legal drinking age, there should not be unsupervised, open access to alcohol.  However, given the seniors, grad students, and employees who are of age, the better solution might be to have a real bar on campus that cards people in lieu of allowing frats to leave unsupervised liquor around at their parties.

Chico State banned all alcohol a few years ago after a frat related hazing resulted in a death.  Many campuses have banned hard alcohol, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Notre Dame, etc.

http://fusion.net/story/41436/10-other-t...d-alcohol/

Stanford, apparently, has recently decided to join the hard alcohol ban--or at least has proposed to.  I can't find out whether the policy has been approved or not.  I wonder if the decision has been influenced by the Brock Turner case.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/04/19/...t-fellows/

Let's be careful, though, not to blame this incident on alcohol alone.  Most drunk people do not rape unconscious people--Turner's drunkenness--which was not so bad that it prevented him from sprinting away from the scene of the crime--is no excuse.  It is worth pointing out, however, that not only is Turner culpable as a rapist, he was also not of legal age to drink, and anyone who supplied him with alcohol was breaking the law. 

By the way, there is immense Stanford history over alcohol.  The Stanfords banned it and so did Palo Alto.  The ban lasted until 1966, apparently.  In the early days, students had to cross the city line to Mayfield (since annexed--the California Avenue district) to buy booze.  Ernie's is still there, right at what was the city line.

Edit:  just found this:

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/04/06/...versation/

Students rejected the ban 91% to 9%.  Doesn't mean it won't happen.  Apparently the ban was ONLY going to apply to freshman dorms.  Sheeesh.

[81alum]

What should Stanford do? Eliminate all social events with alcohol?

Some campuses have done exactly that.  When 90% of your undergraduates are underneath the legal drinking age, there should not be unsupervised, open access to alcohol.  However, given the seniors, grad students, and employees who are of age, the better solution might be to have a real bar on campus that cards people in lieu of allowing frats to leave unsupervised liquor around at their parties.

Chico State banned all alcohol a few years ago after a frat related hazing resulted in a death.  Many campuses have banned hard alcohol, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Notre Dame, etc.

http://fusion.net/story/41436/10-other-t...d-alcohol/

Stanford, apparently, has recently decided to join the hard alcohol ban--or at least has proposed to.  I can't find out whether the policy has been approved or not.  I wonder if the decision has been influenced by the Brock Turner case.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/04/19/...t-fellows/

Let's be careful, though, not to blame this incident on alcohol alone.  Most drunk people do not rape unconscious people--Turner's drunkenness--which was not so bad that it prevented him from sprinting away from the scene of the crime--is no excuse.  It is worth pointing out, however, that not only is Turner culpable as a rapist, he was also not of legal age to drink, and anyone who supplied him with alcohol was breaking the law. 

By the way, there is immense Stanford history over alcohol.  The Stanfords banned it and so did Palo Alto.  The ban lasted until 1966, apparently.  In the early days, students had to cross the city line to Mayfield (since annexed--the California Avenue district) to buy booze.  Ernie's is still there, right at what was the city line.

Edit:  just found this:

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/04/06/...versation/

Students rejected the ban 91% to 9%.  Doesn't mean it won't happen.  Apparently the ban was ONLY going to apply to freshman dorms.  Sheeesh.