Sober-ato or Alcatraz?

SOBER-ATO? OR ALCATRAZ?

Setting : Some prestigious private college campus

Character: Residents of college and certain administration

Scene setting: Deans office Mid- meeting as he congratulates campus safety for having a great first two quarters.

Assistant to the dean of Little Brother University: Excuse me sir, I know you did not want to be disturbed during your meeting today but I believe their may be something on the news you may want to look at...

Dean: What is it, I don’t have time to be watching tv right now.

AD: It’s the students, they are on the news!

D: Our students? Show me.

They walk to the TV in the office.

New woman: Here we are at Little brother university, a Private Institute of higher learning, where students are protesting the invasion of privacy being practiced in their dorm buildings. Here is an animated video, made by the students, to show the abuse of power, and how the university is taking advantage of it’s rights.

Camera zooms in on video

student walks towards sober-ato from safeway with a backpack. Real life

Campus safety is waiting by the door of sober-ato

CS: What’s in the bag there little lady? Bought some alcohol in safeway? Are you 21?

S1: No officer I swear I just had to get groceries and I didn’t want to harm the environment by taking a bag.

CS: I’m going to have to search your bag.

S1: no officer I’m telling the truth.

CS: you don’t have a choice; you have to do as I say.

S1 opens the bag to reveal tampons and a pack of condoms…

CS: Oh…. I apologize; you can be on your way now.

S1: It’s not my fault LBU is Jesuit and doesn’t provide birth control or contraceptives to its students.

S1 walks inside.

New scene

Everyone is chilling is sober-ato lounge 204 Listening to music chit chatting and having a good time (no alcohol.)

S1: So nick how’s everything going?

S2: I’m good just a lot of work for Monday, that CTW class is busting my…

Knock on the door.

S3 opens the door

(CF) is standing outside the door

CF: We are hearing a lot of boisterous laughter and loud noises coming from this room, and there are rumors there might be alcohol here (lie cause no body would care to spread that rumor)

S3: No mam, just some friends hanging out in my suite.

CF: we’re going to have to search your sweet.

S3: How is that fair you have no reasonable cause.

CF: we don’t need reasonable cause we just need to believe there is alcohol.

CF begins to search the room while everyone boos her.

She enter S4’s room and begins to search the room.

She finds very strange materials in his room…

She proceeds to do the same will all rooms embarrassing the owners with what she finds.

She ends her search in vain there was no alcohol.

S3: I told you! You had no right to do this. This is wrong and is a complete invasion of privacy!!!

CF: I’m sorry but we have the right to do this and if you refuse the search campus safety with ransack your room…

S3: this is wrong and we need to do something about it.

New scene

CF is searching though rooms 204 trash in the dumpster to find alcohol.

S3 walks in to throw out more trash.

S3: what are you doing (CF)? Why do you have our marked trash bag?

CF: well S3 we mark everyone’s trash bag just in case there is suspicion of alcohol or drugs in the building we are able to search your trash.

S3: isn’t that illegal or something?

CF: no, when you signed to go to this school, because it is a private institute, not owned by the state, we are able to rid you of all your rights as long as you sign for it.

S3: so no matter what if I want to attend LBU I lose my civil rights as a citizen of the US?

CF: Somewhat ya.

S3: this is wrong and I am going to do something about it!

And btw there’s nothing illegal or against the rules in any of our trash, so you can get out of the dumpsters now you freak.

Scene: Friday night 9 pm on campus. S4 walking home from the library with a backpack on.

CS: Excuse me sir, may I see your access card?

S4: ya sure, I go to school here I just live off campus.

Cs: So what’s in the backpack?

S4: Just my books I was in the library.

CS: I’m going to need to search your bag to make sure you aren’t smuggling illicit material onto campus being under 21.

S4: I was in the library, you have no reason to believe I have any sort of alcohol or drugs.

CS: You are a college student with a backpack on at 9 pm on a Friday. That’s all the proof I need to believe you are carrying alcohol.

S4: That’s ridiculous, even if I did have alcohol that can’t be enough cause to search me.

CS: I don’t care what you think. You don’t have the right to deny me, so hand over the bag.

S4: This is bull, Here look for yourself.

CS searches bag and throws everything on the floor. He finds nothing and returns the bag

CS: Have a good night.

S4: You aren’t going to clean this up?!

CS just walks away.

Scene cut now a quick message from the students

S3: As you can see the conditions we are in are unacceptable and need to be corrected. The fact that they are able to strip us of our rights to privacy, is unacceptable. Thank you for sharing our video now back to you guys at the news station.

(Animation) News lady: Thank you S3

As you can see the conditions of these students is ridiculous and they need to do something about it, hopefully this school will understand their plea and reason with their students.

Cut to Dean in his office.

D: I can’t believe this, is this what I was congratulating?

Dean walks back into the meeting room with campus safety

D: I have just seen a video that so called depicts your actions with the students. The only thing I can say is there better be no validity to these stories because if there is, there will be a change in this staff.

CS: The students are just mad because they keep getting caught.

D: from what I saw you guys harass more people than you actually catch. I can assure you there will be an investigation to see how true this video is. This school has just been tainted on national television; we will make amends for this.