[DeltAlum]

"Higher degree of accountability? Maybe on paper but not in reality. Just look at all the national fraternities that have chapters operating underground even though the local governing body tried to shut the chapter down. You can't have it both ways.

Max,

Can you go a little deeper into that thought?

Not necessarily disagreeing yet, but it would seem to me that an active chapter of a national fraternity would be accountable to the national, the university and itself.

An underground chapter would be accountable only to itself.

A local would be accountable to itself, and probably the university, depending on how the Greek System works at that school.

What other factors would you see? I have no experience with undergroung chapters, and all of the sorority and fraternities were nationals on our campus when I was there. Still are, I think.

edit

I think you must have been typing your question above while I was typing this. My guess is that the fraternity could be held accountable if it was a fraternity function at the bar.

By the way, it's not only GLO's who are affected by this kind of thing. The past two places I've worked have prohibited alcohol of any kind in their facilities (even for parties), and won't reimburse alcohol expenses at business lunches and dinners due to the same kind of liability issues. In fact, one of them doesn't even have alcohol at parties held off site. Same reasons.