We, the Student Government at Behrend, oppose the idea that University Park is mandating our campus to become dry. We feel that the lack of local, safe opportunities for students of drinking age to exercise their legal right to consume alcohol fosters an increasingly dangerous and oppressive campus atmosphere. At the close of the Fall 2011 semester 73% of students living in the apartments will be 21 years old or older. It simply does not make sense to take away a legal privilege of 73% of your residents. To further this point, Behrend apartments have no history of major alcohol related violations.

The proof that alcohol is not an issue at Behrend is in the statistics. Reports mandated by the Clery Act, Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, clearly display that University Park’s alcohol related issues and violations are disproportionately higher than those of Behrend’s; in most instances two or three times over. This only helps to reinforce the sentiment that University Park has uniformly applied a solution to a problem that is not consistent across all Penn State campuses.

Information on alcohol statistic can be found in the report mentioned above at:

For Behrend - http://behrend.psu.edu/student/police/docs/PoliciesSafety&U.pdf

For University Park - http://www.police.psu.edu/cleryact/documents/2009-101504%20c%20PolicySafety_UnivPrk.pdf