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AN ISSUE OF SAFETY -Brief
(This paper was written by an administrator in the department of student services at
California Stat University, Sacramento. This paper represents administrators and faculty on
the Sacramento campus. Address: Department of Student Affairs, 6000 J Street,
Sacramento, CA 95819. Phone: 916/278-8210.)
The Issue: On Campus Student Safety
Recently there has been a student death on campus caused by alcohol poisoning. The
student dies during a fraternity sponsored on-campus event. The untimely death of this
student has prompted other students to form a new student group EIE, Enough Is Enough.
EIE has started a petition and mailing campaign demanding the removal and exclusion of
fraternities and sororities from the campus.
Though the campus administration agrees with the EIE intent of not allowing harmful
influences in places of prominence on campus, the University does not agree that barring
fraternities and sororities will help reach this goal. We believe that the death of this student
could have happened at any on-campus event in which alcohol was involved.
Deaths, such as our students, have happened at Universities across the United States, such
as Dartmouth College and MIT. These colleges did not remove all the fraternities and
sororities on campus, what they did do was a proactive approach to the real problem,
availability of alcohol on campus. For this reason we will follow the approach of these
universities and make our campus a dry campus.
This new dry-campus policy allows students the access of student leadership that
fraternities and sororities and other social organizations offer, while in a safe environment
