Apparently, many more than just students violate campus regulations against drinking.
Alcoholic beverages were served at a meeting Monday evening to seven members of the faculty, a Buffalo city councilman, and a visiting high State official from Albany.
The meeting was called by Dr. John E. Drotning in Room 232, Norton Hall.
Several students called The Spectrum office and the Student Association offices to complain about "faculty drinking illegally in the Student Union."
Liquor bottles were plainly visible from the hall outside the meeting room, and when a Spectrum photographer entered to take pictures, one faculty member said: "I know what you're doing. Sure, we're drinking booze—big deal. Get out."
The photographer was escorted to the door by Dr. Drotning.
Dr. Drotning said that he "must have been partly aware" of the ban on liquor, but that he "was not concerned about it."
"There is no State law against liquor on campus," he said. "When I sit down to have a drink before dinner, I don't think about the law."
He admitted that students might be upset that faculty appear to "get dual status." But he said: "At some stage in life, you get treated differently than at others."
Dr. Drotning refused to reveal the names of other faculty members at the meeting, but he said that all were from the faculty of Social Sciences and Administration.
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