Over the summer at its July meeting, the Board of Trustees of the California State University approved $1.1 million to fund committees that will evaluate alcohol policies on each campus.

Shirley Uplinger, Vice President for Student Affairs at Sacramento State, sat on the Alcohol Policies and Prevention Programs Committee. She said the university is in the process of forming a broad-based committee to review and address alcohol related issues on campus.

” We don?t have the people on it yet and the charge has not been approved, but it is underway,” Uplinger said.

Uplinger said each university would match the $25,000 they will receive from the Chancellor?s office.

The committee will serve as an adviser to the President on issues regarding alcohol on campus.

Both the new guidelines set forth by the report and the implementation of the council are in the best interest of the university, Uplinger said.

“I think it has a very positive impact for the institution,” Uplinger said. “We?re going to give it significant attention.”

Heather Dunn Carlton, Assistant Director of Student Affairs, has been put in charge of putting together the council, but as of yet the criteria for choosing people has not been decided.

“We?re still working on the charge and how people are chosen for the committee,” Dunn Carlton said.

Exactly how the $50,000 will be spent is still undecided, Dunn Carlton said.

“The campus will be involved in the decision on how we spend the funds,” she said.

According to Dunn Carlton, the committee will attempt to prevent alcoholic disasters on campus.

On a statewide level these would include the alcohol related death of a CSU Chico freshman on Oct. 7 of last year. On a local level, it would include the problems that have occurred at sporting events at Sac State, which last year prompted President Donald Gerth to create a designated area for tailgating before football games.

Dunn Carlton said the campus is not free of problems relating to alcohol, but that the committee will do research and get input to better understand student behavior.