Alcohol
In accordance with Massachusetts laws, only persons who have attained the age of (21) twenty-one are permitted the use of alcoholic beverages. Massachusetts law forbids the sale or serving of alcoholic beverages to anyone under the age of (21) twenty-one. It is also illegal to furnish alcohol to a person under (21) twenty-one years of age. All students, faculty, staff and visitors to the college must abide by these laws.

Restricted areas for alcohol possession

Alcoholic beverages are only permitted in upperclass residence areas including:
Dufault Townhouse
Aubuchon Townhouse
Authier Townhouse
Wachusett Hall
Moquin Townhouse
Dion Townhouse
Young (C Dorm)
Bissonnette Townhouse
Living Learning Center

Alcohol is never permitted in the following areas:
Desautels Hall
Alumni Hall
Worcester Hall
Nault (A Dorm)
Salisbury Hall

Drinking alcoholic beverages and possession of alcoholic beverages is strictly prohibited from all outside areas, public areas, athletic facilities / fields or any other campus building unless specifically designated. Residents and guests of Nault (Substance-free housing) are prohibited from possessing alcohol and/or prohibited from being under the influence of alcohol while in the residence.

The following are some important Alcoholic Beverage Offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• Any person under (21) years of age that is unaccompanied by his parent or legal guardian that knowingly transports or carries on his person any alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• Any person under (21) years of age who purchases or attempts to purchase alcoholic beverages or alcohol.
• Any person under (21) years of age who makes arrangements with any person to purchase or in any way procure alcoholic beverages.
• Whoever knowingly makes a false statement as to the age of a person who is under (21) years of age in order to procure the sale or delivery of alcoholic beverages.
• Whoever includes a person under (21) years of age to make a false statement as to his age in order to procure a sale or delivery of alcoholic beverages or alcohol to such person under (21) years of age.
• Any person transferring, altering or defacing any liquor purchase identification card.
• Making, using, carrying, selling or distributing a false identification card.
• Using the identification card of another.
• Furnishing false information in obtaining an identification card.

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• drinking paraphernalia
• drinking games
• kegs & beerballs
• spiked punch
• open containers in public areas
• intoxication/Drunkenness
  

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Controlled Substances (Drugs)

Chapter 94C of the general laws declares that no person knowingly or intentionally shall possess a controlled substance unless such substance was obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription order from a practitioner while acting in the course of his professional practice.

The following are some important Controlled Substances (Drug) Offenses according to Massachusetts laws.

Most of these violations are considered felonies:

• Any person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures, distributes, dispenses or possesses with intent to manufacture, distributes or dispense (or cultivates or possesses with intent to cultivate), a controlled substance.
• Knowingly or intentionally manufacturing, distributing, dispensing or cultivating or possessing with intent to manufacture, distribute, dispense, or cultivate marijuana, cocaine, heroin, morphine, opium, or related compounds.
• Unlawful possession of hypodermic syringe, hypodermic needle or any instrument adapted for the administration of controlled substances by injection.
• Unlawful delivery, sale or exchange of such needle, syringe or instrument except to an authorized person.
• No person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver, possess with intent to sell, obtain, receive, or purchase a hypodermic syringe, etc. unless licensed to do so.
• No person shall knowingly create, distribute, dispense or possess with intent to distribute or dispense a counterfeit substance.
• Any person who is knowingly present at a place where heroin is kept or deposited in violation of Chapter 94C or being in the company of a person knowing that the said person is in possession of heroin in violation of Chapter 94C.
• Any person who sells, possesses with intent to sell or manufactures with intent to sell drug paraphernalia.
• Any person knowing or being in circumstances where one reasonably should know that drug paraphernalia will be used in violation of Chapter 94C.
• Knowingly or intentionally manufactures, distributes, dispenses or possesses with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance in Class A, B or C to a person under the age of eighteen years.
• Stealing a controlled substance from a registered manufacturer, or any other person authorized to dispense or possess any controlled substance.

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• Illegal drug possession
• Possession of drug paraphernalia
• Distribution of illegal drugs
• Distribution of drug paraphernalia
• Being under the influence of illegal drugs

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Assault/Assault & Battery

An assault may be defined as an attempt or offer to do bodily harm to another by force and violence. If an unlawful and offensive touching occurs, no matter how slightly, it is a battery.

The following are some important assault/assault & battery offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• Two persons who engage willingly in a fist fight are both guilty of assault and battery regardless of the fact that they do not want law enforcement officers to intervene.
• Simple assault: If a threatening, assaultive gesture is made or if a series of menacing acts are undertaken for the purpose of inflicting non fatal injury.
• Aggravated assault: If the purpose of the assaultive gestures and actions is to achieve some other criminal offense.
• Assault by means of a dangerous weapon: If a dangerous weapon is used as part of the threatening or menacing gestures made toward the victim.
• Assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon: If an assault and battery occurs and the dangerous weapon is used in the battery.
• Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon: If an assault occurs and a dangerous weapon is present but is not used in actually harming the victim.
• Assault with the specific intent to commit a felony.
• Assault with the intent to murder or with intent to maim or disfigure.
• Assault with the intent to rob, or murder while armed with a dangerous weapon.
• Assault with the intent to rob or steal.
  Enters a dwelling or a house while inside , assaults another with the intent to commit a felony while armed with a dangerous weapon.
• Assault and battery for the purpose of collecting a loan.
• Assault and battery of any public employee (including a police officer) when such person is engaged in the performance of his duties at the time of such assault and battery.
• Assault upon an emergency medical technician or ambulance attendant while such person is treating or transporting a person in the line of duty.
• An assault and battery upon a person or damages the real or personal property of another for the purpose of intimidation because of the said persons race, color, religion or national origin.
• "Affray." Two or more persons fighting together in a public place to the terror of those persons lawfully present.
• "Mayhem." Mutilation with the intent to maim or disfigure.
• Assault with a dangerous weapon, substance or chemical with the intent to maim or disfigure.
• Aiding in an assault with the intent to maim or disfigure.
• "Stalking." Willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly, follows another person or harasses another person or making a threat with the intent to place that person in imminent fear of death or serious bodily injury.

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• Assaults
• Assault & battery
• Fighting
• Affray, mayhem, stalking

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Sexual Assault

The following are some important sexual assault, indecent assault and sexual morality and decency offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• Aggravated Rape: Sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with a person who is compelled to submit by force and against his or her will or is compelled to submit by threat of bodily injury and the natural or unnatural sexual intercourse which results in or is committed with acts resulting in serious bodily injury or is committed by a joint enterprise (two or more persons working in concert with one another).
• Assault with intent to rape: Assault on a person with the intent to commit rape.
• Indecent exposure: Exposing to view of other people the uncovered or partly uncovered body in an offensive or indecent manner.
• Lewd, Wanton and lascivious behavior: Lewd, Wanton and Lascivious person in speech or in behavior.
• Open and Gross Lewd and Lascivious behavior:Men and women, married or unmarried who engage in open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.
• Drugging person for unlawful sexual intercourse: Applies, administers or causes to be taken by any person any drug, matter or thing with the intent to stupefy or overpower such person so as thereby to enable any person to have unlawful sexual intercourse with such person.
• Prostitution: Permits common, indiscriminate sexual activity for hire.
• Engaging in sexual conduct for a fee: Engages, agrees to engage or offers to engage in sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee.
• Common night walker: Habitually walking in streets, in the nighttime for the purpose of prostitution.
• Soliciting for a prostitute: Solicit or receive compensation for soliciting for a prostitute.
• Obscene matter: Is in possession of with the intent to disseminate or disseminates obscene matter knowing it to be obscene.

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• Sexual Assaults
• Rape
• Lewdness
• Prostitution & Solicitation

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Breaking & Entering

Breaking is defined as the movement to a material degree of any obstacle which bars the way of an intruder. Entering is defined as when any part of the intruders body comes inside the building.

The following are some important breaking and entering, robbery, stealing, larceny, and burglary offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• Breaking and entering or breaks after entering a dwelling house in the nighttime with the intent to commit a felony.
• Breaking and entering a building, ship, vessel or vehicle in the nighttime with the intent to commit a felony.
• Breaking and entering in the nighttime or daytime a building, ship, vessel or vehicle with the intent to commit a misdemeanor.
• Makes or mends or begins to mend or knowingly has possession of an engine, machine, tool or other implement adapted and designed for the cutting through, forcing or breaking open a building, room vault, safe or other depository in order to steal therefrom money or other property or to commit any other crime.
• Larceny: Unlawful taking and carrying away of property of another with intent to deprive that person of the property permanently.
• Unarmed Robbery: By force or violence or by assault and putting in fear robs, steals, or takes from a person or from his immediate control property which may be the subject of a larceny.
• Armed Robbery: Armed with a dangerous weapon assaults and robs, steals or takes from a person or from his immediate control property which may be the subject of a larceny.
  

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• Breaking & Entering
• Larceny
• Robbery
• Possession of tools for the intent of breaking & entering

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Malicious & Wanton Destruction

Malicious injury is described as something done out of a spirit of hostility, cruelty, or spite directed personally to the owner of the damaged property. Wanton injury is injury inflicted as the result of heedless or reckless disregard of the rights of others.

The following are some important malicious and wanton destruction offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• Willful and malicious destruction or injury to personal property, dwelling house or building of another.
• Willfully, maliciously or wantonly writes upon, injures, defaces, tears, cuts, mutilates or destroys any library materials or property.
• Willfully, intentionally and without right, wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars or injures a :
• Church, synagogue or other building or structure or place used for the purpose of burial or memorializing the dead.
  a school, educational facility or community center or the grounds adjacent thereto.
• Threatens to burn, deface, mar or injure in any way destroy a church, synagogue or other building, structure or place of worship.

This also includes the malicious or willful destruction or defacement of:

• lamp post railings
• traffic regulation signs
• signals or marking devices
• schoolhouses, churches
• any building used for educational or religious instruction or any property belonging thereto
• glass in a building not his own
• fence or gate enclosing land not his own
• no trespass sign or notice
• legal notices posted in public
• show bill, placard, program or other advertisement posted on a wall, fence, billboard or structure not belonging to him

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• Destruction of school property
• Destruction of anothers private property
• Defacement of any property
• Malicious & Wanton behavior

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Arson

The following are some important arson and fire alarm offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• The burning or the aiding in the burning of a dwelling house.
• The burning or the aiding in the burning of any building or structure not a dwelling house or the contents thereof.
• The burning or the aiding in the burning of personal property worth more than $25.00.
• The burning or the aiding in the burning of a motor vehicle, boat, wood timber, fence, gate, trees, grass etc.

Fire Alarms:

• Without reasonable cause by outcry- ringing of bells or otherwise makes or circulates or causes to be made or circulated a false alarm of fire.
• Wantonly and without authority opens for the purpose of giving or causing to be given a false alarm or interfere with by injuring or defacing or opens, tampers or meddles with such box or any part thereof or with wires or anything connected thereto of a police signal system or fire signal system.
• Willfully obstructs, interferes with or hinders a firefighter or fire fighting force or apparatus in the lawful performance of his or its duty.

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• False reports of fire
• False fire alarms
• The burning of any property
• Destruction or defacement of fire alarm systems

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Weapons/Explosives

Assumption College prohibits all types of firearms and weapons from campus. No student, faculty member, staff member or visitor to the college is allowed to bring any type of firearm or weapon onto the grounds of the campus even if the person possess a valid permit to carry one. The only exception to this rule are law enforcement officer's when in the lawful performance of their duty.

The following are some important ammunition, explosives and dangerous substances offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• False Report of bomb or dangerous substance: Knowing the same to be false transmits or causes to be transmitted to any person by telephone or other means a communication falsely reporting the location of any explosive or other dangerous substance or contrivance thereby causing anxiety, unrest, fear or personal discomfort to any person or group of persons.
• A person other than a police or other law enforcement officer acting in the discharge of his official duties has in his possession or under his control an infernal machine or a similar instrument contrivance or device.
• Willfully and intentionally and without right by the explosion of gunpowder or any other explosive unlawfully damages or destroys property or injures a person.
• Willfully intentionally and without right throws at or near any person or throws into, against or upon any property or puts, places or explodes gunpowder or other explosive with an intent to unlawfully destroy or damage property or to injure any person.
• Makes, sells, uses or has in his possession or under his control a bottle or other breakable container containing a flammable liquid into which has been fixed or placed a wick or similar device and which bottle or container when ignited and thrown will cause a fire or explosion.
• Mingles poison with food, drink or medicine with intent to kill or injure another person or willfully poisons any spring, well or reservoir with intent to kill or injure another person.

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• Firearms or weapons on campus
• Possession of explosive materials
• False reports of bombs or explosives

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Trespass

The following are some important Trespass offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• Any person who enters or remains in or upon a dwelling house, building, boat, improved or enclosed land, wharf or pier of another without right after having been forbidden to do so by the person who has lawful control of the premises either directly or by notice posted thereon or in violation of a court order.
• Any person who willfully tears down, removes or defaces any notice posted on land or other property by the owner, lessee or custodian warning persons not trespass thereon.
• Any person who enters upon the private land of another (whether or not it is posted as no trespass) without right and in so entering makes use of or has in his immediate possession or control any vehicle, machine or device which includes an internal combustion engine or other source of mechanical power.

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• Trespassing on the campus
• Destruction of no trespass notices or signs
• Trespassing with a motor vehicle
  

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Motor Vehicle

Chapter 90, Section 3 of Massachusetts motor vehicle laws states that nonresidents enrolled as students at any school or college in Massachusetts who operate motor vehicles registered in another state or country must complete a the 'Commonwealth of MA Registry of Motor Vehicle- Non Resident Driver's Statement' located in Campus Police.  If you have any questions about this call the Campus Police Department at 767-7225.

The 2007-2008 Campus Calendar/Student Handbook, clearly states:

“The college reserves the right to revoke the privilege of operating a motor vehicle on the campus from any student who fails to abide by these and/or other parking regulations.”…”Students and employees who receive (10) ten tickets in one academic year will lose their privilege to have and operate a car on campus for at least one full semester” (page 121).

If you have violated the parking policy at Assumption College, you will be informed that your parking privileges will be revoked for the following academic semester.  For the sake of clarity, you will not be allowed to have a car or operate a car on campus. If your car is found on campus it will be ticketed and towed immediately at your expense. 

The following are some important motor vehicle violations and offenses according to Massachusetts laws:

• Obstructing or impeding fire or police or ambulance vehicles.
• Failing to stop for a stop sign or flashing red signal.
• Failing to slow or stop for a yield sign.
• Failing to yield for a pedestrian at a crosswalk.
• Stopping in a crosswalk.
• Operating an unregistered motor vehicle or trailer.
• Operating an improperly equipped motor vehicle.
• Operating a motor vehicle without a license.
• Operating a motor vehicle after suspension or revocation of license.
• Speeding.
• Operating or allowing another person to operate a motor vehicle after registration for such vehicle has been suspended or revoked
• Exhibiting to a police officer a license issued to another person with intent to conceal identity.
• Operating while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or of marijuana, narcotic drugs, stimulants, depressants or vapors of glue.
• Operating recklessly.
• Operating negligently.
• Leaving the scene of property damage accident.
• Leaving the scene of personal injury accident.
• Allowing other person to use ones license.
• Drinking from an open alcoholic container while operating a motor vehicle.
• Refusal to stop for a police officer. Refusal to give name and address to a police officer. Refusal to produce license and registration.
• Operating an uninsured motor vehicle.
  

Assumption College strictly prohibits any and all types of:

• Operating recklessly on campus
• Speeding
• Operating under the influence
• Driving while intoxicated

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