2 students sent to HUP after drinking

Neither student examined in the emergency room this weekend required admittance. A resident of the Quadrangle was transported by ambulance to HUP in the early morning hours Sunday, according to a University Police spokesperson. The student was admitted to the emergency room between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. with "alcohol issues" and was released sometime before the end of the night shift at 8 a.m, a hospital spokesperson said. And the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life reported that one other Penn student landed in HUP over the weekend after having too much to drink. Further details about the student were unavailable as of last night. While these latest alcohol-related incidents are the first since the University implemented its new alcohol policy, Penn officials said that such hospital activity is relatively normal for this time of year. "Two students seeking treatment in the ER is not unusual," VPUL spokesperson Leah Smith said. "It's not a high number and it's not, from what we can tell, any more than at this time last year." Smith explained that the two students seen at HUP this weekend only received treatment and were not actually admitted, indicating that the cases were not severe. Penn's new guidelines targeting alcohol abuse among undergraduates were enacted this summer after lengthy student-faculty task force meetings led by Provost Robert Barchi.