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While I agree that it isn't right for sororities to rely on the fraternities for parties, I feel compelled to add a few points here...
Many fraternities have women at their recruitment functions to entice guys to join, which makes the implication that if you join that fraternity, you'll have hot women around all the time.
If fraternities just stop hosting parties, then sororities wouldn't rely on them. Everybody would go to bars where things are regulated with bouncers and bar tenders and the liability is greatly reduced because there are third party vendors taking care of everything. The sororities have had the rule for DECADES that no chapter funds could be used for alcohol. They have had dry houses for decades. Nobody is stopping the fraternities from doing the same thing.
People who host private parties at their own homes choose to do so. I don't see how their greek affiliation would come up unless they have letters plastered all over.
Every time we have mandated a sorority chapter that I work with to have only dry events, they find that none of the fraternities will do anything with them.
We do host events that have alcohol, as a cash bar, such as our formals and semi-formals. In the 21 years since I've been initiated, the only time there have been problems were when women's dates drank too much and engaged in property destruction. I'm sure there are some exceptions to that somewhere, but in my direct experience, this is how it has been. We also are required to provide bus transportation to such events. Why aren't the greeks doing more of this?
Back in my day, the fraternities threw the parties so that they could 1) drink underage 2) be the coolest fraternity on campus and 3) get lots of women to their house (not necessarily in that order!). The parties were all campus parties although we had mixers that involved one fraternity and one sorority also. There is something more going on with this generation though. Because, for all the alcohol that flowed pretty freely, people did not binge drink to the extent that they do now. The goal would be to get a slight buzz and maintain it all evening, not drink til you puke or pass out. I think that if sorority women stopped attending fraternity/fraternity member sponsored parties, the parties would still happen, with non-affiliated women there.
Dee
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