Alcohol consumption is forbidden on all three local campuses and at off-campus functions that are associated with the school.
Rules are in place for dealing with offenders with expulsion as the ultimate punishment.
Probation and counseling come first with the emphasis on helping the students who may have a drinking problem. On Halloween night, two students, one at the University of Wisconsin and the other at Virginia Tech, plunged several stories after drinking. One died, and the other was seriously injured. Three other Virginia Tech students also died the same night as a result of drinking. A Louisiana State University student drank himself to death at an off-campus fraternity party, a freshman at Massachusetts Institute of Technology died in September after a drinking contest at a fraternity house, and the list goes on and on.