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A part of me says good for them. At the University of Nebraska the Lincoln police, University Police, and even the Community service officers (of both sex, that's important) have the right to enter any Fraternity at any time to inspect the 'public' areas of the house, unescorted, no notification given before or after the walk through. Basically they can search everything execept individual rooms (although they have broken that guideline and always find loopholes after the fact-i.e. "well the door wasn't closed all the way to where it latched" (but no one was around to confirm that) We have even had reports of officers in our window wells trying to look in/ get in through a bathroom window. They do this to an invasive degree.
I understand some of the need for campus security and enforcement (although our campus is dry and in the past 5 years the fraternities have really fallen in line with keeping alcohol out of their houses...before that...there was booze around and walk throughs were used to catch houses. But now there is no need to keep up with such an invasive practice. Many chapters have really strict alcohol policies (including my chapter) that they actually enforce to a successfull degree.
In sororities no matter what the sex officers must be escorted and are not even allowed upstairs. So basically a kitchen, livingroom, tv room, and a dining room. In the dorms they wander the halls but never pull don't pull "the door was slightly adjar and the refridgerator was also slightly open" BS.
So its a wrong double standard if sororities and the dorms are not treated the same. And if someone is ever caught with alcohol in their room by the university (which is difficult to get away with when the penalties from the fraternity alone are really strict), the WHOLE fraternity gets in trouble for one moron who they would have punished if they had caught him themselves (but didn't b/c they we don't break into eachothers rooms looking to bust one another). Dorm floors don't get shut down for one idiot breaking a rule...sororities don't go on probation or have their charter's yanked for a girl being too drunk in her own house when there's a bottle of Grey Goose hiding upstairs in her closet. Just Fraternities...I guess we are to blame for EVERYTHING.
Sure they can come in, look around, we've got nothing to hide...but make sure that they do the same down the street to the residence halls and sororities.
If I sound bitter I'm sorry, but maybe the statistics that say "fraternities have higher alcohol abuse rates" are skewed b/c that's where they are focused on looking for a problem...perhaps the rates are the same across the board of collegiate students, but the research is biasedly focused.
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