The goal of the specific quantities is to prompt Party Hosts into thinking concretely about how much alcohol is appropriate for the size gathering they are having. Safer Party Host training includes education about the importance of staying within a reasonable Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) range, minimizing binge drinking, for this reason.

The Public Safety/professional staff checkpoint at the beginning of the event will serve as general visual confirmation that quantities are within the relative range as required by the policy. From there, our goal is to center student autonomy/agency, and we entrust that Party Hosts understand the why behind the policy in such a way that leads to self-motivated enforcement.

The alcohol quantities are calculated based on the number of people (presumed 50 for the purpose of the policy) consuming three standard-sized drinks over four hours.

We suggest that you think about who you want to select as a host – if you’re celebrating your birthday, perhaps it makes the most sense to have your friend serve as the host so that they can appropriately facilitate the space.

Our goal in offering the Safer Party Host training via Moodle is to both make sure the information is freely shared throughout the campus community, as well as to ensure that as many people can be trained as ‘Hosts’ as possible.

Registration is done on a first-come, first-serve basis and gives priority to hosts who live in the spaces they’re requesting to reserve. Area Coordinators, in conjunction with student staff and residents of the building, reserve the right to dictate the usage of their residence hall spaces as appropriate based on community needs. Intention will be given to the number of parties per weekend in a space.

In the event that the policy is not adhered to (for instance, students hosting an unregistered gathering, exceeding room capacity, etc.), students would go through the Community Standards process, as they would in respect to violating any other policy on-campus.

In the event that the policy is not adhered to (for instance, students hosting an unregistered gathering, exceeding room capacity, etc.), students would go through the Community Standards process, as they would in respect to violating any other policy on-campus.

The way we see this policy as being effectively implemented is ensuring that enforcement is equitable and consistent. This will mean checking to make sure common areas in all residence halls are being used appropriately (i.e. no unregistered gatherings) and calling upon appropriate professional staff intervention (Public Safety, Professional Staff On Call) in the event that an unregistered event needs to be broken up.

During a party or event, the initial checkpoint between Public Safety/professional staff and the registered party host(s) will serve as the primary point of enforcement. During this time, Public Safety/professional staff will visually confirm that the basic tenants of the policy are being followed.

A secondary goal of this policy is to encourage autonomy and advocacy among students in respect to their peers. Therefore, we hope that this policy also sets students up to intervene between one another in the event that additional steps need to be taken (i.e. calling for help, requesting to turn down music, etc.).

The goal behind knowing your guests and being intentional with who is invited is to ensure that party hosts are set up for success in managing their space and taking accountability for the actions of their guests. We believe that, in order to best do this, party hosts should know their guests in order to feel most comfortable asking folks to leave (if capacity is reached), asking guests to cease disruptive behavior, and ensuring that guests are upholding the values and norms set by the host.

This provision was also put in place in part due to repeated feedback that off-campus guests, unaccompanied by MHC students, were negatively impacting partygoers' and residential students' experiences.

We recognize that, for some, this marks a significant departure from current MHC party culture. As this policy only applies to parties thrown in residential spaces (ie. spaces that are naturally prohibitive in size and in type of party, due to their residential nature), we look forward to continuing to provide accessible avenues for students and student groups to throw larger and more inclusive social gatherings in non-residential spaces (ie. Chapin, the Great Room, etc).