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Thanks, moe.ron, for posting that!
Just a couple of thoughts:
First, is it pretty safe to assume that the legal counsel and the Greek life office for every college and university is aware of the famous out-of-court settlement by MIT in the death of Scott Krueger (fraternity-related, alcohol-related)? The amount -- and this was a few years ago -- was six million dollars. i have a feeling that it may just be a matter of time before someone's parents are successful in a suit against a fraternity and are awarded millions.
Second, as to the "transfer of liability" to fraternities when there's a joint fraternity-sorority event with alcohol -- are any fraternities beginning to look serously at the wisdom of continuing to agree to those arrangements? It's really looking like the risks are getting far too high.
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