I attended two undergraduate colleges. The first, in upstate New York, was pretty draconian. The county sheriffs were present at events where alcohol was available. Drinking age was fairly rigidly enforced.
I transferred out of that college after a year and into (after a year off) a conservative private university. Security there was, well, odd.
Local police were not allowed on campus unless called. The campus police department enforced rules about drinking ages and alcohol consumption (where and when permitted) strictly for students who were perceived as misfits, or leftists, or somehow not quite right. Frat boys,* athletes and people who were just there to study could do whatever the fuck they wanted to do. Including beat up the weirdos and gays.
Amazing.
Note: There were no fraternities. But you know the type.
University of California, not Berkeley, 1975. Our RAs woukld go on an alcohol run for us on Fridays, and we had a kegger in the dorms nearly every weekend.
Oregon State University, 1976. Our frat got a permit to block off one block of the street in front of our house, set up a stage in our parking lot for a band, and tapped 27 kegs in our basement. Three other houses on the street had the same. Easily a thousand people dancing in the street. All with the blessing of the cops.
It was a different time. The beer distributor ran Beer School every fall for all the social chairmen so their product was served correctly.
Penn in the middle 50s. Frats had parties with booze although the PA drinking age was 21. What campus security really cared about was women in the men’s dorms and vice versa. There was a two hour period Sunday afternoons when women were permitted in the men’s dorms, but the door had to be open and feet had to be on the floor. One other thing was enforcing the curfew (maybe 11:00, I don’t recall). A friend of mine was a grad student living in the dorms and officially not subject to the curfew. Still when he came in late, he had to sign a register (he often signed Mickey Mouse or similar).
NYU, late 1980s. There was essentially no Greek life (one of the major reasons I chose the school), so no issues there. Underage people had booze in their rooms, for sure. People tried to sell me crack, etc. half a dozen times whenever I crossed Washington Square Park to go to class. One guy in my dorm freshman year took them up on it and died in his sleep.
I didn’t turn 21 until after I graduated (I finished in 3 years and have a late September birthday, so I was only 17 when I started college), so I really don’t remember how legal drinking on campus worked. But hell, when you’re living in New York, why would you feel the urge to party on campus? That’s why my hard-drinking suitemates my second year annoyed the crap out of me - I had an early class on Fridays and then went to work for the rest of the day, but many people had no Friday classes, so they would party all night on Thursdays and keep me and my roommate awake. So my roomie ratted them out to our R.A., and as they were underage, they got in trouble (not such horrible trouble, just warned to knock it off or there would be unspecified consequences).
Campus security? There must have been some, but I really don’t remember them at all. When you’re smack in the middle of all the weirdness that was Greenwich Village in the late 1980s, I guess they don’t make much of an impression.
We actually have a Twitter page full of parties & anonymous gossip, just like Barstool. Students can post their apartment # or house address on the account if they plan to host a party.
We also have our own DD system as well: Students have send college ID proof to the Twitter page before they post their phone number & rate for the night. We don’t have many Uber or Lyft drivers around our campus.
Florida State University, no one cared about alcohol or marijuana, but no smoking of anything inside the dorm. I think it was a campus wide policy because I do remember a professor that was infamous for lighting up in the social science building as well as doing an early morning study session before a final with about 3-4 others and a guy asked if we minded him have a quick smoke.
Never saw anything stronger than booze and weed, I imagine stronger stuff might have been an issue. I don’t remember a single issue related to alcohol or drugs, the only issues I remember where a few times where political or sports arguments got a little hot and heavy and an RA would remind us to use our inside voices. And music and noise restrictions were definitely enforced during Quiet Week before midterms and finals.
Today McNary Hall 5h floor will have a softball game and kegger with the 2nd floor of Callahan Hall. Tomorrow with the co-op up the street. Wednesday will be a kegger and dance with all 3 dorms in the local group. Thursday a kegger and dance on the quad up the street. School had not even started yet. I don’t even remember what happened when the weekend actually came.
Never had I been exposed to so much officially scheduled beer drinking. I was 17 years old at the time.
Early 80’s, one of the co-ops at UC Berkeley had a vending machine with beer in it. Don’t know about the parties, though; I was just there to play D&D. Nobody ever bothered us, even though the clove cigarettes got a bit strong after a while.
My second school. It was a small one. I had a couple of pals from home staying with me in the dorm for the weekend. Saturday night we attended an off-campus party and were apparently somewhat boisterous as we made our way back across campus to my dorm. I don’t recall campus security being involved, but the RA was, and the following week I appeared before the Dean of Something or Other and was placed on some sort of behavioral probation. The school was fairly strict about drinking to the point that if a student was popped off campus for underage drinking, the local cops informed the school. I stayed there three semesters.
I was actually campus security in the 80s. I did that job to pay my way through school. We were just the security guards, charged with locking up and turning off the lights and night and unlocking doors in the morning. There was a security guard assigned to the dorms, but they wouldn’t have access inside unless an RA opened the door. There was a campus police who were actual police officers with real guns, in contrast to us armed only with radios.
No parties in the dorms and the frats were off campus so the city police would deal with them. At the dorms, no open drinking in the three years I worked security.
Most of the students lived off campus so the problem was more for the city police to handle.
Norway 80s. Can’t remember any “campus security” Not sure what they’d be for. I suppose some students could have been roped in as bouncers if necessary, but we were adults.
Uk 90s. I think there were a couple of old guys in the main uni who did odd jobs and maintenance. It think it would have been part of their responsibilities. There was also a system where mature students got some small bursaries to act as theoretically more mature adults.
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