[DeltaBetaBaby]

I have been to IU, and I am going to share my opinion, whether you all want it or not.

IU houses are all located in a "Greek Village," a decent distance from anything else.

Women who pledge an NPC group generally live in their chapter house sophomore, junior, and senior year (I am not sure if this is similar to fraternities), unlike other campuses where the older members usually get apartments.

The bar age in Bloomington is 21.

Basically, the students at IU have nowhere to party. We all know you can't tell college students not to party, especially not at a Big Ten school. So they are going to find a place, in this case, the Greek houses.

IU administration mandates that all Greek houses are dry.

As long as a chapter is breaking the rules, they may as well go all out: free-flowing alcohol, jungle juice, kegs, etc. Additionally, if there is an emergency, no one wants to get busted, so a member with alcohol poisoning is not likely to get medical attention. Instead, his brothers are likely to feel that they are qualified to "take care of him" (read: throw him in the shower until he sobers up).

So what would happen if alcohol was allowed at the houses? Maybe there could be a peer-monitoring system. The university could know in advance who was having parties and when. Maybe alcohol could be restricted to canned beer. Maybe the chapter wouldn't be afraid to seek medical attention if someone needed it. Maybe several sober monitors would be required.

Is this a crazy idea? Not really, it seems to be working just fine on my campus.