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Originally posted by AGDee
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.

At many places, the women at rush parties has gone away with wet rush. Maybe the sweetheart will be there, but that's it. At any rate, brothers are not going to give a bid to a guy who spends the whole time chatting up the women. It would be the same way if there were men at sorority rush. Maybe there is the occasional guy who signs a bid for that reason but I doubt he makes it through pledging.

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.

In many states, you cannot even enter a bar until you are 21, even if you're not drinking. Plus, the money required to rent a bar for a private party is prohibitive for many groups - and the bars have no desire to cut off the rest of their clientele for a party of 100 people. Especially when the majority of them won't be drinking alcohol!

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.

Sororities and I think fraternities have been hearing the "if there are 2/3/5 XYZ members at an event, it is an XYZ function" for the last few years. I agree that it is garbage. Their Greek affiliation would "come up" because whether you're wearing letters or not, people know what GLO you're in!

We also are required to provide bus transportation to such events. Why aren't the greeks doing more of this?

Again, the expense can be prohibitive, and also some groups have rules against "out of town parties." If your college is in a dry town in the middle of nowhere, you can choose to violate the out of town party rule or the drinking in the fraternity house rule. You might as well violate the one that costs less money. The point I'm trying to make is that many of the risk management rules were made assuming that all chapters have an endless pit of money which is NOT the case.

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.

You just answered your own question.

And of course if sorority women didn't go to parties, the fraternity men would still have them...but let's face it, many women join at least partly for an enhanced social life. To shell out a good chunk of change and then be told "by the way, you can't go to fraternity parties where they serve alcohol" and your GDI roommate can - i.e. your Greek membership has closed a door, not opened it - is why a lot of the smart, freethinking women who would be such a boon to our chapters are avoiding sororities.