[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

If you can say that underage drinking = alcohol abuse, maybe yes.

If you're saying that any time there's an event with undergrads and alcohol everyone's using alcohol in an unsafe manner, no.

My point is that the way the policy is worded is really ambiguous and can get twisted around either way, either to save a chapter's ass or to bust them for things that they aren't necessarily doing. If you don't want people to wear letters to fraternity parties, your policy should say "don't wear letters to fraternity parties." Why is that so hard?

Although it's not clear, I think it's pretty clear. (if that makes sense)

To say specifically, “Don’t wear your letters to a fraternity party,” then creates room for someone to say, “Well, what about at the bar?” … then they specifically mention the bar, and then someone is bringing an AST mug to a friend’s house to get wasted. Then they have to specifically say each and every item you cannot have at these events and so on and so forth.


IMO, it’s basically saying “anywhere alcohol has the potential to (obviously) be abused, don’t wear anything having to do with the sorority.” If anyone wants to try to work around that somehow, be my guest, but I’d strongly advise against it.

And yes, someone could get wasted sitting at the bar in Applebee’s, but there’s a big difference in wearing your badge out to a dinner where the guy across the restaurant from you is denied another beverage, and wearing a lettered t-shirt to a fraternity party where you go every week and know that half the people there get sloshed. To compare the two is kind of silly.