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Rudey,
To answer a couple of your questions. Greek Life is 10-12% of the school. There is a lot of partying that has nothing to do with the Greek system. Furthermore, what no one seems to know here is that CU has been a "dry" campus since 1995, my sophomore year. Alcohol is officially only allowed at third party outlets but there's been smaller, less advertised events going on in fraternity basements since..... about a week after the resolution was signed.
How many rules can they pass? How much freedom can they try to take away? It didn't work last time and it never will because kids getting their first taste of responsibility will continue to use it in all the wrong ways. I'm just sick that these kids managed to learn nothing from a young girl dying a couple of weeks and 40 miles away. They drew on his face instead of checking his vital signs. That's disgusting..... really disgusting. We need to educate the kids better about the risks of alcohol. We need to change the culture of drinking so it's not such a new and exciting thing to the average teenager and more like the European cultures. I don't think more rules is the way to do that.
As for the student population, DeltAlum's assesment was a little too right on. One of my economics professors once told me that the average income of a the parents of a CU student was about $150,000. This Chi Psi that died was from Dallas by way of a private East Coast boarding school. We're a priviledged bunch for a public school, especially the Greek system. However, lets not blame that. I've met ski bums/potheads who found their way here from UMass and BU and UMich and a thousand other places.
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