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Originally posted by madmax
Fraternities should just try to figure out a way to transfer the liability to someone else, such as the students that attend the parties. One thing the fraternities could do is have the parties BYOB and not have them at their house. I went to a fraternity party at another school and their house was kind of far from campus. The house was secluded and their was take-out store across the street. They had a party in their back yard with about 1000 people and they didn't serve any of the alcohol. If someone crashes their car, gets hit by a drunk driver or whatever accident it will be tough for the family to sue the fraternity becase the fraterntiy didn't serve them.
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If they event took place at the official location, or as an official event of the organization, anything that can happen at the event, the fraternity could be held liable for.
Instead of looking for loopholes to continue irresponsible behavior, we as greeks need to start living up to the standards that our founders envisioned. The "standards" of the groups we see the articles about are not looking at the standards of the orgs, but the lowest common denominator of how to get maximum numbers and fun, damn the consequences, because "it can't happen here."
Unfortunately, unless the GLO is local, or extremely small in the total number of chapters, by simple human nature, we'll see unfortunate examples of sheer stupidity that give all of us a bad name indirectly. Either as a whole a paradigm shift is going to have to be made (i.e. some entire national orgs (Phi Delt, Sigma Nu and others going dry entirely as policy), or legal problems may well sunset some organizations permanently.