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Originally posted by LexiKD
That has always been my issue with this...all the groups at my school had more srtict regualtions than the NPC resolution and still felt betrayed....why was no one following the rules from the begining?
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Until this select 2000 jazz all started, all our policy said was "An ASA will follow state and local laws with regard to alcoholic beverages." In other words, 21's could drink anytime, co-sponsored function or not. If we would have been in Canada, we could have all drank. So we WERE following the rules by having mixers & restricting underagers from drinking. I don't know about the groups at your school, but I had assumed most groups had similar wording.
The reason this policy has met with such resistance at rural schools (and I DEFINITELY went to a rural school) is that there is rarely anyplace to hold events. I mean, we had the Moose hall, 3 hotels, and 4 bars. The bars are NOT going to give up a night's revenue for a private party (unless Bill Gates is throwing it) and the hotels are far too expensive to rent every week, unless it's for a special occasion like a formal. We just plain DO NOT have the funds for this sort of party - I mean, we had to scrape $$ together just to pay our dues. This policy is very unfair to chapters that don't have a lot of $$$ (which goes for most of the state schools up here) because even though the nationals can swear up and down "we're not mandating prohibition," when they pass policies that many chapters find impossible to follow, they are doing just that.
And I just want to say that "3 sisters is an event" thing is bullsh!t. Period. That seriously treads on freedom of association rights, IMO.