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Campus Strictness

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Students Are Most Likely to Get Caught... Drinking from an open container

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Students agree that campus security is willing to look the other way concerning first-time alcohol and marijuana offenses. Within the dorms, the RAs have the power to enforce drug and underage drinking policies, but most do not. If you get caught, expulsion is a possibility although probation is more likely.

Since most alcohol and drug use is limited to the rooms or apartments, it is less likely that students will get caught. There is a big difference between four people drinking in a dorm room and a wild kegger, and the latter tends to be hard to achieve in Columbia’s tiny dorm rooms and apartments. If you are not obviously intoxicated, then you can get away with just about anything. If you live in a dorm and are too drunk to hand the security guard your ID yourself (i.e. your friend does), the guard is required to call CAVA (the student-run emergency care group). It’s always health over legality at CU, and an underage drunk student who is taken to the hospital will rarely face disciplinary actions. Use discretion. While security is rather lenient, the safety of students is a priority.

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Campus Strictness at Columbia University

jfcarr999

'15

Political Science and Government

3.8
B+

Not Too Strict

quite easy to be written up in the dorms but not too sreious. CAVAing is quite common and very annoying and you have to go to counselling afterwards but dont get in trouble the first time. you just have to go and see an advisor

Feb 04, 2012

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Campus Strictness at Columbia University

cmhebert

'05

Education

5.0
A+

Laid Back

The campus is very laid back and liberal. There are very few policies with regard to the academic and social life of students. The campus is based in NYC. And, lots of students live off campus in apartments.

Jun 22, 2011

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Campus Strictness at Columbia University

ColumbiaUniversityReview

'14

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

3.8
B+

Strictness at Columbia

I personally am biased against this question about campus strictness because of a few bad experiences I have had with the judicial affairs office. Most of the RAs are really chill and do not mind drinking at all, even noise is excused. However, there are the occasional strict as shit RAs, such as the 5th floor carman RA this year.... The judicial affairs office is run by a few people that just hate kids apparently, they constantly have meetings for small offenses, such as drinking in dorms. They hate when rooms get written up with beer pong tables and hate kegs so much, so maybe thats why they were extra douche-y to me when I got written up. They usually start with a warning only, but weed they take pretty seriously, which is unfortunate when you come from california where it is essentially legal... The police don't do s*** though, its just the RAs that you have to worry about, so its not that bad if you are smart about parties.

May 03, 2011

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