Listened to KOA radio discuss this yesterday, and they had the Panhel President on - she stated this was a BYOB party as well, which doesn't excuse the behavior, but does point the finger away from the fraternities to a certain (but not absolute) extent.
Secondly, after the news announcement that all IFC fraternities were self-imposing a ban, news is out that CU told IFC to ban parties as well.
I also had a good discussion in my morning class about this - some UNC greeks are in my class. Apparently this phenomenon is becoming more popular due to the better taste of hard alcohol drinks, which in their and my opinion, makes drinking hard alcohol all the more dangerous.
The radio hosts were perplexed as to why this is happening more and more often - callers were trying to explain that part of it is the goal of drinking these days: to get as hammered as possible and to get puking drunk, because that is "cool"
Others stated it is the rebellious nature of teens/young adults to "one-up" the previous generation - but, to what extent do you want to "one-up" yourself? To death? It's very concerning.
Not to mention the "it can't happen to me" mentality that I see in my students attitudes - but, that is changing thanks to this CU incident.
Education and awareness is not working, folks. Cracking down harder on the greek system is not working. This problem is getting worse, if anything. Any other ideas on how to stop this?