JSchool Alcohol Policy

(revised as of 11/4/2019)

No alcohol will be served at the following events held at the school:
● Events hosted by students
● Events with only students or students/faculty/adjuncts/staff as attendees
● Class events (end of year or end of semester parties or other special occasions)

If you are hosting a mixed audience event at the school (students, alumni, donors, working journalists), you must fill out the Alcohol Registration Form.
● All JSchool events with alcohol that could have students attend must have a caterer who provides the liquor license, serves the alcohol, and handles the proof of age verification.
● All JSchool events with alcohol that could have students attend must have university-trained alcohol proctors (for consumption monitoring) even if the University determines that they are not required under their policy guidelines. One proctor is required for every 40 attendees.
● Food must be served at all events with alcohol.
Please note:
● Proctors are $25 an hour with a 1⁄2 hour set-up and 1⁄2 hour breakdown.
● In addition, “hosts” (those identified on the Alcohol Registration Form as the onsite contact) of events with alcohol must attend an alcohol safety training. They are hosted every Friday afternoon at Lerner in the lunchtime hour starting in September.
● Events with caterers who are filling out the license may have hard alcohol.
● All alcohol must be contained to the room in which the event is held. Alcohol cannot be transferred or carried out of the event space.
● If you are hosting an event at the school that is only Faculty and Staff with no students you can serve beer and wine with no caterers. However, the alcohol for which the host (the school) purchased needs to be disposed of at the end of the event (not distributed to event attendees or left in the kitchen for claiming.)

Columbia University Alcohol Statement of Policy

Columbia University is committed to creating and maintaining an environment that is free of alcohol abuse. The University complies with New York State law and other applicable regulations governing alcoholic beverages for those on the University's premises or participating in its activities. The University strongly supports education and treatment programs as the most effective means to help prevent and reduce alcohol abuse.

In addition, Columbia University is committed to providing an academic and social environment that supports individual freedom while promoting individual responsibility, health and safety, and community welfare. To that end:

1. Columbia expects that those who wish to include alcohol as part of their activities will do so responsibly and lawfully. Responsible drinking includes making sound judgments about whether, when, and how much to drink, understanding the health issues related to the consumption of alcohol, and avoiding excessive or
"binge" drinking or any other abuse of alcohol that negatively affects one's academic, work, social, athletic, or personal activities, and health.

2. Persons planning events on campus should be mindful of the complexities introduced into planning an event with alcohol. Event management issues--the presentation of entertainment, provision of refreshments, management of the participants or audience, security, and other factors--require serious attention for any
event, and all the more for an event at which alcohol is served. Event organizers must fully understand the University alcohol policy and applicable laws and manage their events accordingly. They also are expected to keep the safety and well-being of participants at the forefront of their planning and management of events.
Staff members who advise students are expected to assist them in making responsible decisions about their events and to facilitate the enforcement of the University's alcohol policy.

3. Organizations may not plan events that promote or encourage the consumption of alcohol, nor may event planning be based upon the assumption of abusive or illegal alcohol consumption. Persons planning events should rem-ember that the vast majority of events at Columbia take place without alcohol, that most
members of the undergraduate community are not of legal drinking age, and that among those who are, many do not drink alcoholic beverages at all. Campus organizations that choose to plan events with alcoholic beverages are expected to maintain a reasonable balance in their programming between events with and
those without the serving of alcoholic beverages.

More information on the following related subjects can be found here:
● Health Issues Related to Alcohol
● Legal Requirements
● University Policies
● University Alcohol Procedures
● Temporary Beer and Wine Permit
● Outdoor Events with Alcohol
● Undergraduate Student Training for Programming with Alcohol
● University Alcohol Proctors
● Supplemental Guidelines and Procedures to Implement the University Policy on Alcohol at the Medical
Center
● Drugs