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Originally posted by DeltAlum
And then everyone would be saying "somewhere else" is to blame. Here's the bottom line. The TEKEs did apparantely give her the booze. Whether she fell or was pushed, her judgement probably was impaired. Giving her alcohol is against the law -- whether the law is fair or not.
We absolutely MUST stop putting our organizations in this position. Besides the fact that people are badly hurt or even killed, the liability is huge.
One of the single biggest challenges to the survival of the Greek System is the rapidly rising cost of liability coverage. No organization can live without it, and situations like this one cause the skyrocketing premiums.
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Oh, I definitely agree with all of those points, and I think that Greeks need to realize that situations like these can be avoided, and that we need to start doing our best to avoid them. I just think it's wrong that Teke is probably going to get sued for this. If the girl had just been drinking in her apartment with her friends and this had happened, would she have sued the person who brought the alcohol over? Probably not. Even if she had been at a non-Greek house party, gotten drunk, and fell off her balcony, I'm not sure that there would be the same threat of a lawsuit pending as there is here.
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with you that we all need to do our part to eliminate situations like this. The Tekes shouldn't have been serving this girl alcohol; it was an irresponsible move on their part, and the consequences of the act were terrible. But I also think that placing the majority of the blame on Teke is unfair, since they weren't even present when she fell, they didn't force her to drink, etc. -- all they did was supply the alcohol which, as I pointed out earlier, could have probably easily been obtained from a number of different sources. People need to start taking individual responsibility. I don't doubt that part of the blame falls on Teke's shoulders here . . . but certainly not all of it, and that is what the lawsuit is going to make it out to look like.