In response to my many antagonists...
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It is likely that this is totally legal. The Bill of Rights only protects you from searches and seizures by the GOVERNMENT. Theta Xi is not the government.
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As a non-profit organization, they thus become a instrument of the government and are controlled by the governement. This argument would give anyone the ability to search your room. Since Joe Schmoe isn't apart of the government he can search Jay's room.
And perhaps if we are able to sign away our rights to provate organizations, we shoudl still be able to obtain renters insurance (which our contract says we can get) but contradicts itself because we can't obtain this renters insurance with their search rule. So whats with that.
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However drinking in the house is risk managemet and a big issue that could get your charter pulled or house lost on my campus-- and I think that if the alum want to handle it within the fraternity and not get you expelled or in trouble with the college, but deal it on their basis, then they are smart!!! In that case, then i can understand both sides completely.
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Your campus.
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I believe that they MUST support and care about your chapter to have signed their names as guarantors on your mortgage--do you realize what an incredible personal risk that is for each guarantor? Believe me, no one who "does not support" a chapter would incurr such a serious personal and financial risk just to torture some undergraduates.
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Although you did bring up some great points of contradiction and when I said the house members abide by I truly meant the the "house" abides by. This means that the house will never host any event or party where alcohol is served unless it is served by a third party vendor. That means no wet parties or anything where there would be a risk managment issue to any outside party involved. The house understands the reasoning and abides by it. Now personal issues with each member I cannot and do not know. But if someone did have alcohol or a cigar, its there personal issue and they will punished occordingly. $100 fine for firsts and then kicked out on second offense.
2nd issue: They did not have a signed contract. They never handed them out to anyone. They just had a copy for themselves which no one signed. They decided not to fine or kick anyone out once they realized that. Does that sound like good managment?
3rd Issue: Again I would like to point out that I am not an active an do not live there right now. Its really amazing how many recent alumni want to change this but because one guy wants to be able to check lock boxes in someones room at any time, we're stuck. So take it as you will, but this isn't right. And we do have many poeple checking into this not just me. A couple recent alumni like myself who are in law school. Just thought that maybe someone may have delt with a similar issue.
J