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Originally posted by shadokat
The whole reason that national and international fraternities and sororities have risk management policies is to remove the risk of liability from the chapter/fraternity/sorority. That being said, the use of third party vendors is allowed for the reason that when you use a third party vendor, the liability lies with the vendor. For instance, you go to a bar and get served underage. That isn't the sorority or fraternity's fault...it's the vendors fault. If you drink too much at a third party vendor mixer and you drive and hurt someone, the VENDOR is responsible for having served you too much alcohol. While sisters should've taken your keys and not allowed you to drive, it's the bartenders at the facility who are serving you and seeing your condition.
Case in point...a man is at a bar, and is COMPLETELY bombed. He gets in his car and drives home and amazingly makes it. But, once home, he falls down the stairs to his basement, slamming his head off the concrete floor. He dies from swelling of the brain. So who is responsible? Well, the DA in this situation charged the BARTENDER for serving the man too much alcohol and allowing him to leave in that state. The bartender was charged with involuntary manslaughter, and while the charges were later dropped and not refiled, it shows you where the liability will lie.
I know this is completely off of the sorority life topic, and I apologize, but I think that it's important to realize that risk management is of the utmost importance, and there are reasons behind the policies we have.
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You are right but not completely.
We just finished SEVERAL alcohol awareness classes offered by our nationals and our school.
Essentially this is how the law works. The blame lies with the third party vendors, as long as the sisters didn't know better. If I know that NM Becky is 18 years old and I see her present a fake ID (Manufactured or someone elses) and I don't do anything about it, and a lawyer can prove I was aware of how old she was and that she was misrepresenting her age at that point I am now liable because I was AWARE she was underage and consuming alcohol. So the blame now lies with the vendor AND me.
Hope that helps........