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I find this one particularly scary:
* The group of fraternity and sorority members who will patrol events will be trained to identify and report actions that may lead to violations of campus policies. If a patrolling student fails to report violations, the student's entire chapter would be subject to sanctions imposed by the Greek community's judicial councils, which have the authority to impose fines, order community services work, or block a chapter from holding social events.
UC Berkeley has 70 fraternities and sororities with more than 2,500 members. Under a current and longstanding policy, hard liquor is banned. Beer and wine are permitted for students of legal drinking age, but are prohibited if served from kegs or other bulk containers.
The liability involved in being someone who is patrolling events is so incredibly high. They need to hire a 3rd party security firm to be doing this. They are all better off just having non-alcohol functions than to face this kind of liability. I was under the impression that our liability insurance requires 3rd party security.
I also agree about the comment about if one sorority member is there the whole chapter gets fined? I do think that we need to be responsible and not let a fraternity take a fall if it's a joint event, but as hoosier pointed out, you could be a date of someone. What if the person is in another group/club on campus but not in a sorority? Why wouldn't their group be held responsible?
Seeing as it's Berkeley, I'd defnitely expect some legal actions to be happening...
Dee
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