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Why do people post 'you must be 21
to. drink' signs at house parties?
Hint: There is no good reason
Remember when you threw your
first house party and your older
friends told you to post "no drink-
ing if you are uoder 21" sigos oext
to the keg?
Those signs, as much a staple
of house parties as beer sod vom-
iting, don't do anything - they
won't shelter you from Michigan's
host law. According to the host
law, knowingly allowing a minor to
consume alcohol in one's home is a
misdemeanor.
The first offense is punish-
able by a 30-day jail term and/or a
$1,000 fine.
The signs passed down from
student to student are an urban
legend, said Douglas Lewis, direc-
tot of Student Legal Services.
They're also not enough to pro-
tect students from the law, he said.
"A sign by itself is totally ineffec-
tive," Lewis said. "Those who have
parties need to make a fairly seri-
ous effort to make sure people who
are underage are not drinking."
In an interview last fall, Sgt. Ed
Dreslioski of the Ann Arbor Police
Department said the law is rarely
enforced. He could only recall
three instances where students
were charged under the host law in
his 1S years with the police.
It does happen, though.
In 1999, 10 members of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity were
charged with host law violations
for serving alcohol to a minor.
After drinking at a Phi Delta
Theta party in October of 1999,
LSA freshman Courtney Cantor
fell to her death from the window
in her room in Mary Markley Resi-
dence Hall.
Although the Washtenaw coun-
ty prosecuting attorney ruled that
no criminal actions were involved
in Cantor's death, 10 Phi Delta
Theta brothers were charged with
furnishing alcohol to minors and
allowing minors to drink.
Although the signs might not
serve any practical purpose, stu-
dents seem to think they do, Lewis
said.
"It's like the myth where if you
are drunk and put a penny on your-
tongue when you take a Breatha-
lyzer test, you will pass," he said.
"Who knows where this stuff
comes from?"
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CRIME NOTES
Scrawled racial Gold r ing taken
slur offends from hospital
library staff employee
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
WHERE: Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 7:30 a.m.
WHAT: Aracial slur directed
toward black people was found
in astudy carrel in the library
stacks, the Department of Pub-
lic Safety reported. The slur was
reported by a staff member.
iPod reported
stolen in MLB
WHERE: Modern Language
Building
WHEN: Wednesday at about
2:30 am.
WHIATAn iPod that had been
leftiunattended was stolen, DPS
reported.
WHERE: University Hospital
WHEN: Thursday at about
12:30 am.
WHIAT: Amale hospital staff
member reported losing agold
and diamoond ring, DPS report-
ed. He said the ring was stolen,
police said.
Flat-panel
monitor stolen
WHERE: Computer Science
and Engineering Building
WHEN: Wednesday at about
2:30 p.m.
WHAT: A male member of
the building's staff discovered
that a fiat-panel computer
monitor had been solen in
the previous 24 hours, OPS
reported.
Reception to
open art exhibit
WHAT: Opening reception
for an art exhibit on theatre
design and production
WHO: The Theater and
Drama Department
WHEN: 8 to 10:15 p.m.
WHERE: u-club, Michigan
Union
Grad student
plays Haydn,
Rachmaninoff
WHAT: A piano performance
of parts of Haydn's Sonate
in Es Hoboken, Bartok's
improvisations on Hungar-
ian Peasant Songs and Rach-
maninoff's Sonata
WHO: So Young Park,a grad-
uate student in the School of
Music, Theater and Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Britton Recital
Hall, E.V, Moore Building
WHAT: A lecture on the role
of the Lebanese Armenian
community
WHO: Gerard Libaridian,
professor of Armenian His-
tory
WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon
WHERE: 2004 Modern Lan-
guages Building
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Daily misspelled the name
of ROTC cadet Stephen
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9 According to a story in
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Lebanon
ins in
1A Saudi man was sentenced
to spend six months memo-
rizing the Roran after he
was convicted of drug use. He
will be forced to serve an addi-
tional six months in jail if he
fails to recite all 77,000 words
of the Koran before the court.
2The University has offered
to pay employees' fares for
the proposed commuter
railway that would travel from
Ann Arbor to Howell.
>>POR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4.
3more than 300 passengers
aboard the Queen Elizabeth
2 cruise ship suffered from
symptoms of norovirus while
docked in San Francisco, The
Associated Press reported. Crew
and vacations reported stomach
cramps, nausea, vomiting and
diarrhea. All but six infected pas-
sengers hove recovered.
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