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KSig RC has the right idea.
School policy at my college required every fraternity to front a team of at least six men for security for every party. So, for every party we had a team that we called "6-Men." People signed up for the team. People could rotate in and out of the team during the party, but every member of the team was required to be sober. (Our public parties were all dry, so this was less of an issue, but that didn't mean that people didn't drink somewhere else and then show up.)
Here's what the crew might look like for one of our theme parties:
6-Man 1 (Sgt.-at-Arms/Risk Man.): roving, supervising, handling any issues of disorder
6-Man 2: Main floor and main entry
6-Man 3: North stairwell, observing north back door, stairs down, stairs up (off limits)
6-Man 4: South stairwell, observing south back door, stairs down, stairs up (off limits)
6-Man 5: Downstairs dining hall (dancing room).
6-Man 6: roving or assigned where needed.
The upstairs, off limits to guests, was to be carefully guarded and regularly patrolled.
Then there'd be the party crew. Our most complex party had a tunnel people crawled through to get to the basement. These guys have to be sober too:
1 storyteller/tunnel entry guard
2 tunnel rats (in what seems like a contradiction, these guys serve both to alarm people and to watch out for their safety)
1-2 tunnel slide catchers
1 upstairs food/beverage server
1 downstairs beverage server
In a fraternity of 25-30 people, rotating people through these positions every few hours, this meant that everyone in the chapter had a job for at least one hour.
Failure to sign up for a job and to report for it having signed up for it merits discipline of some sort. That probably would have meant extra kitchen duty. Failing to show up for 6-Man was viewed rather more poorly. But people generally didn't fail to show up. The Sergeant-at-Arms, though usually softspoken, was huge, stern, and generally not to be trifled with.
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