Jump in Liquor Violations Due to Administrative Oversight, Says CUA

Craig Parker, University General Counsel, called the increase in alcohol violations an “anomaly” in a recent article of the Brookland Heartbeat, a local newsletter.

The article cites him as saying the Office of the Dean of Students is tallying numbers differently this year than in the past.

He also said that campus officials expect the number of violations in to drop back to previous levels, as they returning to former recording methods.

Changes have been made to the how violations for underage possession of alcohol are counted this year, which Parker says is the reason for the increase in numbers. Students who are in the vicinity of alcohol while underage have been given a citation, whereas in previous years, only students caught drinking were given citations.

“So when we do our counts, we are focused on the student who violated the policy. We have to go through the process to find out what actually happened and then we therefore establish the number of violations based on who is actually found responsible in these larger group gatherings,” said Jonathan Sawyer, associate vice president of Student Life and dean of students. “In past years we pulled those numbers out and last year we must have left those numbers in, through an oversight.”

Rev. David M. O’Connell, president of the University, sent an email to all undergraduate students in September, saying he was “slightly alarmed” by the number of alcohol incidents that had already occurred on-campus this year. The most available numbers made public show that the number of students involved in liquor violations increased by 49 percent last year over the previous year. Recent numbers have not been released.

Victor Nakas, the University’s spokesman, added that the increase in violations has been affected by the record number of enrolled students in the past few years as well.

“Currently we are in our third year of record-breaking freshman enrollment,” he said.

Due to their age, freshmen and sophomores are more likely to incur liquor violations, according to Nakas. Therefore, that growing segment of the on-campus population has contributed to the increase.

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