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Originally posted by breathesgelatin
At W&L, the school requires that all fraternity parties be open.
The student phone book ususally serves as the guest list, but in reality anyone can just walk on in for free. 
All sorority parties and events are invitation only.
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Of course, I don't know the W&L rules/polices so I'll take your words as truth but that doesn't make any sense to me. Why would a university want open fraternity parties? And, if I am one of the FIPG groups on your campus, the first time that someone got hurt at a party and wanted to sue the fraternity I'd turn around and put the blame on the university - "well, we have national policies to control attendance at events but the university superceded our authority and made us allow anyone to enter...."
In a legal setting, I don't think that using the telephone book as a guest list is going to do anyone any favors.
I can't think of a single reason that a university would want to add to their liability by having this policy in place. Is it a written policy?