Call me heartless, but I like this idea.
New Jersey’s Ramapo College is going to start fining students if they show up in local emergency rooms for “extreme intoxication,” Campus Reform reports.
It’s the school’s way of preempting sexual assault at campus parties – five students have been charged with participating in an assault in November – and simply responding to the sheer number of college students who show up “nearly every week” at the region’s hospitals with alcohol poisoning, the school president said.
Students aren’t happy about the $400 fine for hospital attention and $500 for hosting a party with “excessive drinking,” saying offenders simply won’t go to the hospital and more people will drive drunk from off-campus parties:
More than 1,000 students have signed an online petition that is sponsored by the school’s student government that calls for the retraction of the policy; several students have staged on-campus protests.
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