HUPD will sometimes break up a House party, and neither the senior tutor nor the local resident tutor will hear anything about it, says Robert Neugeboren, senior tutor of Cabot House.

And while Selsby gives the assurance that "we bust plenty" in the Yard, resident tutors report that there is a general lack of policy violations in the Houses requiring their attention.

"I've talked to students about drinking, in the abstract," says Margaret Carter '96, a second-year resident tutor in Dunster House. "I've never had to personally implement the policy."

Carlos Diaz, a popular government department teaching fellow and Dunster House resident tutor who told Fifteen Minutes last year that he occasionally holds informal office hours at the Grille, says he has never caught any underage students drinking.

"Loud, all the time," he says. "Drunk, no."

Out of the 353 students interviewed by The Crimson, only eight said they had to meet with a proctor or resident tutor about drinking since the year began--less than 4 percent of first-years and less than 2 percent of upperclass students.

Only three said they have to meet with a senior tutor or dean, and only one said they had appeared before the Ad Board because of an alcohol violation.

But almost a tenth said they had received treatment or counseling because of alcohol use since arriving at Harvard.