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Yes they can. Here in Canada the legal drinking age is 18/19 depending on what province you are in. Now all of our rush events must be dry.... yet all the rush can legally go to a bar, hang out at a pool hall, bowling alley, strip club, dance club, or stay in there residence or home. At all of these places they can kick back and enjoy a drink; but not if they come to our rush event.
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OK all,
Although this is the type of debate I was expecting, I think were at apples and oranges on most of these points.
When I wrote my reply, I specifically had in mind the individual rights as a citizen first, and a Brother second. Here at SU, dry rush has been in effect since 1988 and enforced most of the time by the University. In my book, I fear what HQ can do to my Zeta more than the University punishment (although the double indemnity clauses in place pretty much serve the same penalty).
The scenario I was trying to present:
A 21+ GDI comes to rush. He is legal to drink in any bar he chooses. If under a new law, he is also legally able to toke if he so chooses, he may do so on his own time. If the Zeta chooses not to issue a bid to this man based on the inhalation disclosure, it's 100% up to them, if they consider him flexing his legal rights as a mark against his moral terpitude.
Now let's reverse the scenario and this man gets a bid. The last time I checked, "Every Man a Man" did not exclude pot smokers (of the legal variety). I believe HQ has every right to dictate any activity that goes on inside the walls of any "Chapter House." HQ can suck my balls if they try to supercede my legal rights and strip me of my letters because I choose to LEGALLY smoke pot in MY home on MY time.
I know I went from point A to point B by way of Topeka, but it really needs said. HQ has every right to say what happens inside any designated chapter facility, but will the line actually be drawn as to what a Brother can do outside those walls? This is my concern.
In ZAX,
pman