Harvard has a good policy for dealing with that issue...if you accompany a drunk student to the infirmary or go there yourself, you get amnesty for the underage drinking, and you get the same privacy rights you would in any other medical situation (meaning, the infirmary doesn't give the patient's name to the disciplinary board).
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You have a much better chance of being struck by lightning at the party than killing yourself with alcohol.
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I want to counter James' point to a certain extent. There are a lot of ways to look at those statistics that make them look a lot worse.
First of all, people who die of alcohol poisoning are a teeny fraction of those actually killed because they drank too much. Most alcohol-related deaths are caused by vomit asphyxiation, falls, getting hit by a car/train, etc. So although you may have a very small chance of being killed by alcohol poisoning, you have a pretty good chance of killing yourself with alcohol at that party.
Second, the Greek population we're talking about is overwhelmingly 18-24, healthy, white, educated, and middle-class...in other words, a group where death from any external cause is extremely rare. Even a very small number of alcohol-poisoning deaths may represent a meaningful share of overall deaths for this group.