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Let's think about it this way though, at least at our campus there are at least 2-3 primarily freshman dorms, now if I want to party any night of the week my first spot to go wouldnt be my chapter house, why? because people live here, people are studying, sleep, working whatever, you head over to the main freshman dorm and I promise you'll find a party in 10 seconds flat. Now considering that most of our pledge classes are primarily freshman, there are usually at least some juniors mixed in, or older freshman that did military service etc, so they end up haveing a pledge brother who will buy them booze every once in a while. Then factor in that probably half of the freshman are going to have fake IDs and wether they are pledging with them or not they will have friends with fake IDs who would be willing to buy them booze every once in a while. Throw in some transfer students that tend to make friends with freshman as they come in to orientation together and you get a few more resources. Now consider the fact that most GLOs tend to recruit active students on campus, IE sports players, student govt, student news paper, people in clubs etc, it's very much in the realm of possabilities for a freshie to meet some cool upperclassmen that are ok buying them booze, not to mention teammates etc. The bottom line is that there are always those nieve, freshman or sophmores or juniors that get in over thier head with the partying, much of which happens in dorm rooms and other off campus locations such as apts, dive bars etc. It's not hard to find a party if you want to, I think that taking a short period of time and making it off limits inorder to assure that they do not compromise their studies/pledging experiance is well worth it.
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