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Originally posted by ZZ-kai-
Not necessarily. New colony start-ups are MoP chapters - but not forcibly dry. Some re-colonized chapters (IE Nebraska) came back as MoP and dry, as a requirement by their alumni, or house corp., or the undergraduate delegates (convention)...etc.
So, new colonies are not dry, but they are MoP. Can they be dry? Yep. Do they have to be? No. Can some re-colonizations be non-MoP? No - all new colonies and re-colonizations start as MoP. Can they be a 'wet' house? Yes. Can they be dry? Yes.
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Our reorganization and subsequent dryness were mandated by the Alumni as part of them keeping the chapter open. That was in part due to the fact that some undergraduate members at the time were selling drugs out of the chapter house, and "pledge donkey kong" with empty keg shells was a common mid week activity.
The actual move to being completely dry was done in stages, though the rules were on the books. First no parties in the house, then no afterhours in the house, then only drinking in a room with the door closed (seriously...that was the de facto standard about 2 years before I got into the house) then they actually began enforcing no alcohol at all in the house, then we got rid of drinking in cars in our parking lot. Still, there is some very hidden, underground drinking that happens on occassion in the house...I'd bet 75% of the guys in the chapter have had at least a beer or two while in the house...