Alcohol use at ND, clamped down/being expelled?

notre_dame_AL
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:28:46 +0000

Heycow, for statistics on the ND campus you may check out ndsp.nd.edu. That would be the Notre Dame Police. As for South Bend, I would imagine you can google South Bend Police Dept; maybe they have a web site. I hope that you can at least understand that as a parent I certainly do not want the police to be hyper-focused on alcohol arrests. There is far more crime in South Bend than what ND students may or may not create. My concern is where have the police been up until now; and if they are going to begin cracking down on alcohol and underage drinking, then I expect as a citizen that they would also be making just as huge a crackdown on other crime. Again, I am not annoyed, but want the protection there covering ALL bases. My impression right now is that they seem to be too focused on the alcohol issue at hand, one that has obviously been occurring for some time. What about the protection due my student for the past two years? We have seen little or nothing done with regard to this issue up to this point. And thank goodness he does not live off-campus or even leave campus very often. I can’t tell you the number of times I have reminded him as a parent when he has had to leave campus about the surrounding area and the crime that could occur. I just don’t feel that once he leaves campus there is the strong presence of police protection. No, I am not placing assault ahead of illegal alcohol issues, either. As I said, crime is crime. I just happen to find it rather interesting that all of a sudden this crackdown is happening. Am I glad to see it happening, yes–it does offer me some assurance that a police presence exists. I just hope that we also begin to start hearing about the arrests for assaults, robberies ,etc. in the same way that we are hearing about the raids regarding illegal alcohol. And by the way, our son has 10 months to go before he is 21. Will I be relieved that he is of legal drinking age? No–I will continue to worry about him and others including those over the age of 21 who can consume alcohol legally. I do not want to debate the issues of lowering the drinking age–I just want assurances of police protection. I see the assurance two years later regarding illegal alcohol. How about seeing some assurances about the rest of the crime in the area?