NEWS IN BRIEF: Alcohol approves change

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Committee Chair Dennis Shirley said the proposed change would require out-of-state students to go to the Campus Police and receive a validation sticker for their driver's license to get alcohol.

Out-of-state visitors will also be able to receive temporary validation stickers.

With the current alcohol policy, those who do not have Texas IDs cannot be served alcohol at Rice because bartenders are not trained to spot fake out-of-state IDs.

Shirley said the policy change will probably go into effect in the fall.

Since this change would require everyone who is over 21 to have a wristband, the committee decided not to make it a violation to pass alcohol between people. "We were better off enforcing the policy we have than making 20 contingency policies," he said.

The committee is not taking any action on another proposed change, Shirley said. He said Rice's legal counsel turned down the third proposal, which would allow colleges to designate public spaces for private parties.

He said landlord/tenant laws applied to individual rooms and that Rice, as the landlord, had to respect the privacy of the tenant. But these laws could not be applied to such places as the private dining rooms and the TV rooms.

This item appeared in the News section of the March 31, 1995 issue.

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