re: students and alcohol

From: head_porter.cowspan@gmx.co.uk
To: caplain.cowspan@gmx.co.uk
Refer: students and alcohol

Dear Chas,

thanks for getting in touch with me first - as it happens I stayed behind for the counting, and will do a half-shift tomorrow afternoon.

You're right to say that students have been pretty far gone in the past, I've seen them not knowing who they are and barely able to stand.

Our agreement with the city's Street Pastors specifies that they will not raise the subject of faith, and will only talk about it if the other person makes the first move, as it were.

The problem of the solution identified by your ad-hoc committee is that somebody so far gone may be vulnerable to assault while looking for a phone box. Even if they do call in and we call them a cab, if the cabbie thinks a fare's drunk enough to be sick in their taxi they'll refuse the fare. If the taxi takes the fare and the student is sick in the cab, he or she will surface finding they owe a lot more than a taxi fare. And, to be frank, I don't want to know what might happen if the student hailed an unlicensed cab.

The subject does raise its head every so often, although I've never heard a complaint about the Street Pastors. My answer is, and always has been, that because of the issues I've identified above, Lodge would need a formal policy signed off by College Council with an attached procedure for porters.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you vote?

Yours

Wat

Charles Watson Tyler
Head Porter
Cowspan College
Vachepont Parva