Establish "private collective spaces" for private parties

As it currently stands, parties held in public spaces are strictly regulated and require full registration with Student Judicial Programs and the Rice University Police Department. On the other hand, private parties are not subject to external intervention as long as things stay under control and the party is registered with a chief justice. 

However, as we have seen with unofficial parties such as Highlighter and Screw Yer Screw, large but unregistered and, in that sense, private, parties are often conducted in places deemed to be public. These sorts of spaces seem to fall into a quasi-public category, as they are common spaces utilized only by a small number of students who live on the floor or in immediate proximity to the area, and parties are often successfully conducted in them without police intervention; however, the fact that the spaces are currently categorized as public means students who host parties in these spaces are liable for disciplinary consequences under the alcohol policy. 

In order to eliminate this vagueness and adapt the alcohol policy to work more effectively with Rice's social gatherings today, spaces that are not decidedly public or private need to be placed in a third category of private collective spaces. 

Under the designation of private collective space, an area may be used to host parties by students. Just as with a private party, the host would have to register the party with the college's chief justice; however, beyond this, the student would have to reserve the space from the college during a government meeting, and Rice Emergency Medical Services would be notified of the registration for that party. College government and REMS need not act on the information in any way, but with these two groups being cognizant of the party, they would be in a better situation to move into action if things were to go awry. 

Ultimately, it would be up to each college to determine which areas constitute private collective spaces, and which parties qualify as truly private. 

This new proposal does not actively change how things operate with parties at Rice; as it is, students already party in these quasi-public spaces. By designating them as private collective spaces, however, RUPD will be able to be more consistent in how it handles these sorts of affairs, and student safety will be heightened at such parties as well. Since many of these large private parties being held in private collective spaces are far from being truly private anymore, making a move to acknowledge the existence of such parties will allow the safety resources that are necessary to be more available to student attendees.