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Tufts students pay visits to area hospitals over the weekend
Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers responded to a call reporting that a male was intoxicated in Miller Hall at 12:15 a.m. on Friday, March 28. The male was highly intoxicated and had a laceration on the back of his head. He was very uncooperative with the officers and would not tell them what happened. Eventually Armstrong Ambulance and the Medford Fire Department were called. They arrived on the scene and the student was transported to the hospital.
TUPD also received a call at 2:17 a.m. on Sunday, March 30 from a girl in Hodgdon Hall who reported that her roommate was highly intoxicated. In fact, the student was so intoxicated that TUPD soon decided she should be transported to Somerville Hospital.
TUPD serves as counselor for inter-roommate squabble
A male student living off campus called TUPD at 9:58 a.m. on Thursday, March 27 to report an incident of assault. This incident did not occur on the streets. The student reported that two days before, at around 6:30 p.m. on March 25, he had been assaulted by his roommate. TUPD officers said that they told the student he could go to court and file a criminal complaint, or go through the Office of the Dean of Student Affars and file a report about the assault that way.
"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily"
TUPD officers heard loud music and saw a lot of people going into and out of a party at Sigma Nu Fraternity on 92 Professors Row at 2:15 a.m. on March 28. Since it was after 2 a.m., the officers made contact with the residents of the house and told them to turn off the music. Meanwhile, as the officers tried to clear out the house, the partygoers could not hear the officers telling them to leave because the music was so loud. Upon opening the door to the fraternity, officers observed a student who looked underage drinking alcohol. As TUPD Sergeant Robert McCarthy said, checking IDs is something TUPD officer routinely do "if we think they're underage." The student in question was 18 years old, and when officers asked him why he was drinking, he had a simple answer: "I don't know."
The officers continued to try to clear the house without much help from the residents, and in the process found a keg behind a padlocked but open door. The keg was confiscated and a report was filed with the Dean's office. The fine for having a keg in any university residence, according to the Pachyderm, is $300.
Later, when the officers had, for the most part, cleared the house, they saw two males in the backyard of the fraternity and went to investigate. While doing that, they also noticed that a student on the third floor of 126 Packard Ave., Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, was urinating out of the window. The officers went inside 126 Packard Ave. and identified the person responsible. The student was "shocked," according to McCarthy, though the student did admit that he had been drinking. A report was filed and sent to the Dean's office. The consequence for urinating in public is Probation I.
Tufts' Emergency Alert now includes dry erase boards
TUPD officers arrived at Haskell Hall on Monday, March 31 to respond to a call at 2:15 a.m. from a resident who reported very loud music coming from a nearby room. As the officers approached the room in question, they could smell smoke coming from the room. They knocked on the door to the room but no one answered, so they entered to make sure nothing was burning inside. Though nothing was burning, they found a water bong, marijuana stems, a pipe and a bottle of Grey Goose vodka. The officers quickly checked the age of the resident of the room and discovered he was not 21. Since the resident was not there, the officers left a message on the student's dry-erase board instructing him to "give Tufts police a call," and a report was filed with the Dean's office.
Lost-and-found update: student calls TUPD to get his keg back
The Daily included a report in the March 7 "Police Briefs" that a half-keg had been confiscated by TUPD in Sophia Gordon Hall at 2:50 a.m. on March 2. The brief was entitled, "Could someone please claim the mystery half-keg found in Sophia Gordon?" At the time, none of the residents admitted the keg was theirs. However, TUPD recently reported that a resident of Sophia Gordon indeed called to reclaim his keg. Instead of returning his keg, TUPD returned a $300 fine.
