These numbers represent a significant increase from those of the corresponding weekend last year. After the weekend of Bicker initiations in 2010, five students required medical transport for alcohol intoxication. In 2009 a total of 16 students required medical transport and three were taken to McCosh Health Center and 13 to the University Medical Center.
Over the past decade, Public Safety said last year, an average of eight students each year have required alcohol-related transports on initiations weekend.
Despite the increase in numbers this year, Deputy Director of Public Safety Charles Davall stressed the efforts of the University to ensure the safety of students.
“There has been a collaborative effort between the eating club presidents, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students and the Department of Public Safety to promote safety and responsibility during eating club activities this weekend,” he said in an e-mail.
Executive Director of University Health Services John Kolligian echoed Davall’s sentiments. “The University’s priority is to create a safe environment for students and the University is committed to continuing its efforts to address the complex issue of high-risk drinking,” he said in an e-mail.
He also emphasized “the ongoing work of our clinicians’ specializing in alcohol evaluation and treatment at UHS ... and of the University’s Alcohol Coalition Committee.”
Davall, however, said that confounding variables make it difficult to definitively attribute these transports to Bicker.
“I would strongly caution against linking the transport data to any specific campus activities like Bicker,” he said. “The data provided represent the total number of transports for the entire weekend, and we cannot conclude they are related to a specific campus activity.”
He added that pickups occured in campus for “a much shorter time” at designated times in order to reduce high-risk drinking.
Of the 11 transports, Davall said, four were called in by UHS staff, three by students, two by Public Safety officers, one by a University staff member and one by an anonymous caller.
Nine of the transported students were under the age of 21, compared to four out of five last year and 14 out of 16 in 2009.
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