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	Vol.7, No 4, September 2, 1999
	Liquor law slowly staggers to CSULB By Ken Hanson  Daily Forty-Niner Cal State University officials are still wrestling with how to implement an under-age drinking law passed by Congress last October. The Alcohol and Drug Disclosure law, Section 952, allows university officials to call parents of under age students who are caught drinking on campus. "The law basically says that 18-year-olds are legal adults," said Gary Little, director of housing and residential life. "So to be calling mommies and daddies is not really a high goal of ours." The approach to implement the law is based upon the need of the students, Student Services officials said. "What we find for most of our students by the fact that they are college students, the are relatively mature and responsible for their own actions,î said Alan Nishio, associate vice president of student services. "So we want to look things on a case-by-case basis." The law only says that the university may inform parents when a student is caught with alcohol or drugs, said Doug Robinson, vice president of Student Services.    "We have concluded that we will take an approach that will lend much more flexibility to the administration with regard to these issues," Robinson said. Nishio said that if a student is caught with alcohol and takes some responsibility, administrators would not be compelled to call the studentís parents.  But if there is a continued pattern that develops, he said, there are a series of disciplinary actions that the university could take. "We could send them to counseling or some other form of community service," Nishio said. "But if we think that intervention by the parents might be appropriate then we would bring in a team of representatives from our counseling center, our residential life center and someone from our discipline area. If they felt that parental notification would be helpful in breaking that pattern, then we would contact the parents."   Some students donít like the law, however. "I'd be kind of upset," said Eric Bentson, a history major. "I think thatís definitely something that is between myself and the authorities." The under-age drinking law still remains more of a university policy than a concrete university policy, Robinson said. "The university has options," he said. "This is student centered. We are concerned with the health, safety and well being of the individual student."		Cards pushed at CSULB Toy gun alarms police Zagustin ordered to move out, pay up WPE changed; objective part eliminated Liquor law slowly staggers to CSULB Students get higher GPAs after counseling A.S.I. Senate outlines goals Allow them to play Porn business is good business Students rate favorite 'I' courses L.A. salsa band grooves campus Puff Daddy mediocre forever Classic artist come to Blues Festival 49ers survive rough start for victory Corporate chaos knows no limits Soccer team shows great effort in overtime loss Fall 99 ISSUES DAILY 49ER HOMEPAGE
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