"It's a difficult thing to interpret from a student's point of view, because if a student does something and doesn't get caught, he might read it as the proctor looking the other way," he says.
"Kids get together in rooms and make noise," DeGreeff says. "It doesn't mean they're drinking.
"It doesn't mean [my dog] Bix is out sniffing for alcohol," he adds.
Animal Houses?
A security guard or a resident tutor will sometimes drop by and tell students to quiet down in the Houses, but no more, first-years say.
"When that happens in a freshman dorm, people get in a little bit more trouble," says one recipient of the December e-mail message.
Lewis says more relaxed policies in the Houses make sense both for legal and health reasons.
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