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Originally posted by shadokat
As for the "three sisters makes a co-sponsored function", look at it this way. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's going to be thought to be a duck. When someone sees a fraternity having a party and 2/3s of XYZ sororoity are there, people assume that the sorority is co-sponsoring, even if they aren't. By having these "numbers" in place, some groups feel they will be protecting themselves from liability.
I hope things get better for you 
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Well, here is the way I look at that. We only had co-sponsored mixers on Thursdays or occasionally Wednesdays. That fact was known to the whole campus. Friday and Saturday if fraternities had parties, they were ALWAYS open or guest list. I mean, half our chapter practically lived at the Crow house, but no independent would ever go down there on Friday and say "Oh, there are many ASA's here...I guess this is an ASA-Crow mixer." People knew better than that.
Maybe holding co-sponsored parties to a certain night would alleviate that? I mean, people hang out with who they hang out with, and like Kristi, I think it's unfair to penalize people for wanting to hang out with their friends. If your friends are all at a party at XYZ, that's where you will want to go, and it DOESN'T mean you have to/plan to drink. We had several sisters who came down to Crows with us regularly and didn't drink anything other than pop the whole evening.
Lexi - re the fraternities paying instead of the sororities, they don't have the $$ either. We would all have loved to be able to go to the Loomis and close it for private parties every week, but we (the whole system "we") simply could not afford it.