Exchanges without alcohol?
 

We are not allowed to drink at a social event without a third party vendor, which makes it hard to find fun things to do. A lot of fraternities think we are boring because of this. How can we have fun exchange withour alcohol involved?

Well, you can do one of two things.

1) You can have you chapter officers turn a blind eye to any drinking that is occuring behind closed doors. That is, if a couple of girls happen to wander into a fraternity member's bedroom to do a couple of shots, they can pretend to know nothing about it.

2) Or, what you can do, is have your exchanges at venues which serve alcohol. That is, you could all go to a club, a bowling ally, or a pool hall and be able to drink freely there. This option would probably be better as you wouldn't be breaking any rules.

The club idea is good, but those of us under 21 have to sign a social form which pretty much says we can't drink at all. This is very limiting. Thanks for your suggestions though!

Sorry, I'm used to thinking the drinking age is 19! (I'm from Canada.)

One idea is to have a scavenger hunt so everyone sending people around town and then have a party at someone's house afterwards (so it's not really part of the social ;) ) That's what we did and both groups had a lot of fun and are still talking about it a few weeks later.

I know that many chapters have a difficult time getting RM approved for scavenger hunts. I know my chapter did away with them many years ago when our IHQ had a problem with it (just ask hawaiiagd!).

As for the 'suggestions' in this thread...I won't even touch them. :rolleyes:

I don't understand why not. I can act a fool without any trace of alcohol.

Who says you have to have an exchange with alcohol?

(And I know - everyone is rolling their eyes ... :rolleyes:

Why not try doing a basic fun event - and just have no alcohol, which then you can have at EITHER a men's or women's house

Ideas like

Indoor croquet (use nerf balls please)
Murder Mystery (everyone gets roles, dress to character)
Snow soccer
A dinner exchange

etc. etc.

This would cut down on costs - from the chapter, the members, etc., and can be just as much fun as doing at a bar ... just keep an open mind ...

Just a thought ....

Are there any nearby clubs or bars that allow students in at 18? We have a bunch of hang outs by the college that allow people 18-up in. We rent out the place for the night and get a dj. It becomes our very own dance hall. Also, downtown isn't too far away and many of the clubs allow 18-up there as well.

Our city has an ordinance that no one under 20 is allowed in the bars...but I think there are exception...I'll have to find out...thanks

Or why don't you guys get together beforehand and drink? Pre-Party :) You don't even have to do it with the sorority/fraternity ~ just with each other. Meet at someone's place and BYOB.

No offense, but I don't understand why we should gives you ways to "get around" the drinking age and your GLOs rules just so a fraternity will think you are "fun." Why don't you try getting to know the guys in the houses or do joint philanthropies with them so they'll see how cool you are without having to involve alcohol.

I am not saying that alcohol is the only way to have fun, but when you're school is in a small town there isn't many options. Believe me I am trying very hard to have fun with fraternities without alcohol but am running out of good ideas.

If this girl is in an NPC group, some of you have given her the exact recipe on how to lose a charter, or get on probation, or get sued.....prepartying? Parties with alcohol....please remember the NPC Resolution 2000.

Ugh....this is making me sick.

Kudos for the non-alcoholic ideas....keep it up! We don't have to have alcohol to enjoy life.

Dry Fraternities
 

Considering its a small town, you probably don't have a whole lot of Fraternities there right? As a dry fraternity member, none of our events are "wet". Lots of the old things that our alumni used to do, we can't. We have made certain ideas into pretty big events with sororities. Some may seem wierd but they turn out to be fun. Here are some ideas...

Mud Bowl http://students.washington.edu/thetaxi/mudbowl2.mov

You'll get the idea.

Is it cold there, because if it isn't there's always a dinner/food fight outside. That one is fun. Its best to set up a sprinkler under the table before hand and then turn it on when its time.

We go Bunji Jumping and Skydiving every year, work that into a social with a fraternity. they will be up for it.

There's also a thing that we do called Logger's Ball

It consists of a logger theme dance with dinner being pancakes and stuff like that. Then there is a maze throughout the house using tubes and sheets and stuff. You start through a upstairs window using a ladder. And then you have to work your way down to the dance floor. The en of it uses a slide down the stairs into a bunch of leaves. The the dance floor is right there. Its a dry dance, granted it probably would be better with a spowty but whatever. Its still a lot of fun. Were trying to get back to doing it, but as you can tell, its expensive to do.

I hope these ideas gave you some of your own. If not, good luck.

Don't be mad at the fact you can't drink at functions, be grateful that you never have to clean up the mess and deal with the other things that come with it.

Jay

"Of all evil I deem you capable, therefore I want the good from you."