<p>Follow up from post #6</p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com:</a> Green Team data suggest progress](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2012/05/14/news/alcohol]TheDartmouth.com:”>http://thedartmouth.com/2012/05/14/news/alcohol)</p>
<p>Millman said he modeled the Green Team program after the Quaker Bouncer program at Haverford College, which he started eight years ago. Haverford students are 85 percent less likely to be hospitalized at a party when members of the Quaker Bouncer program are present, according to Millman.</p>
<p>Green Team, a student-run group that provides sober monitors to campus parties, has collected data on its interventions and successes since its creation, according to Jeffery Millman Tu ’12, who started the program at Dartmouth in February 2011. At parties monitored by Green Team since its inception, only two students have required transport to Dick’s House or hospitalization, and only one of those students became intoxicated primarily at the monitored party, according to Millman.</p>
<p>The number of medical transports from parties at which Green Team was present, however, does not necessarily speak to the monitors’ effectiveness, since students may leave these parties intoxicated and only seek assistance after moving to a different location, according to Aurora Matzkin ’97, the president’s special assistant for student health. Relying on this number as an indicator of success may also create a disincentive for Green Team members to seek medical help for students who need it, she said in an email to The Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Over the past year, Green Team members have taken “direct action” with students at least 3,000 times, according to Millman. Green Team members are trained to talk to students that appear to be drinking too heavily, offer water and pizza and help students back to their rooms, Millman said.</p>
<p>About 50 students sign up each weekend to be “on call” for Green Team. More than 425 students have completed Green Team training and 356 students have signed up to “possibly work,” according to Millman.</p>
<p>At $11 an hour, Greek Team is the highest paying campus job for which any student is eligible, according to Millman. The College provides funds to pay students and for water and pizza in “party packs” delivered to parties, Millman said.</p>
<p>Because Green Team is not an enforcer of College policy, members can increase safety at the “riskiest” parties, which often violate College policy, according to former Student Body President Max Yoeli ’12. Yoeli worked with Millman to customize the Green Team program to maximize effectiveness and said that Green Team’s access to unregistered parties is especially useful during Summer term, when none of the parties on campus are registered with the College.</p>
<p>“Without that tenet, Green Team would have never worked,” Yoeli said.</p>