Indiana College Students Acting Stupid
VALPARAISO- IN-- Signs outside almost every Valparaiso University fraternity sum up the student consensus toward the campus police these days.
“VUPD: Encouraging drunk driving,” reads the one outside Phi Sigma Kappa.
Encourage Drunk Driving reads the one outside Phi Sigma Kappa.
Students were already irritated by a plan to put campus police officers on student escort vans, which they say could lead drunken students to get behind a wheel instead of taking the sober ride.
Now, fraternities are organizing after Sigma Pi members said police entered their house with guns drawn early Saturday morning, telling people inside they had seen drug use through the window.
VU spokesman spokesperson said it was Valparaiso city police leading the scene at Sigma Pi, and VUPD officers were only there as back-up.
Either way, students say they are tired of the crackdown.
Sigma Pi member Matt Arvin said he heard someone knocking at the door of his fraternity house Saturday morning. When he answered, he said, he saw an officer. “He had his gun already drawn,” Arvin said.
Arvin said he put his hands in the air and got down on his knees, following the officer’s commands. But he said he wasn’t down far enough for the officer. “He kicked me in the back to throw me down on the ground,” Arvin said. Police searched the house, members said, but found nothing and made no arrests.
Later that night, said Phi Sigma Kappa president police came to his house asking to come in after arresting someone nearby. “They surrounded the house,” Backs said.
Apparently, there are not enough university police cars to surround a house.
Officers weren’t allowed in either way. The students demanded a search warrant, and when police could not produce one, the student shut the door to the house.
In addition to the signs, frat members said they’re planning a protest march on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Sunday evening marked a quiet night for the campus as the Student Escort Service vans, for the first time this semester, did not run their routes.
Following a week-old dispute over the new policy to have VU Police ride along, several members of the staff quit.
I would think they would be happy. Maybe mothers Against Drunk Driving should also be on hand to protest the students stupidity!
