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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son had a similar incident. He was very drunk in the dorm. He fell down and hit his head. Campus security and paramedics came when police came. He was resistant to their care. He was belligerent. He ended up in ER.

His consequences have been severe. He was not allowed back into his dorm. They did agree to let him move to a different dorm but he doesn't want that so he is living back home. He had to give apologies to staff involved. He had to attend alcohol counselling.

He also has been told that he is banned from campus pubs permanently. This didn't happen in a campus pub. He is 18 and the legal age of drinking here where we live is 19. They also said he cannot ever have a drink on campus. Am i wrong in thinking these consequences are too harsh? These consequences will last 4 years. We are thinking of appealing this on principle. [/quote]

This seems insanely harsh....I would absolutely appeal. These consequences will impact your child's entire college experience. [/quote]

Agree. You've got to be in Ontario, right? I grew up there and while I went to uni in QC where legal age is 18 (and really, no one cares or checks anyway) most of my high school friends went to ON schools in the mid-2000s. I've never heard of anything like this. I know Queen's had been cracking down because of the belligerent riots they had at homecoming a few years ago, but it honestly sounds like this is more personal (ie. they wanted him out of the dorm period, this was a convenient way to do so). How on earth do they plan to enforce their punishments? I can't think of an ON school small enough where they could.

In general, though, it's really eye-opening to read what all of you go through in the US where attitudes towards alcohol are so much more conservative. Drinking was an integral part of my university experience--we didn't get black-out drunk like many kids do these days, but it was woven into the social fabric, even at school sponsored events. It seems healthier to do it out in the open (which, I understand, is only possible because it's legal, though I was technically 17 when I started first year). 
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