It was my understanding that the unanimous NPC resolution was in "support" of alcohol free housing and alcohol free functions only. I looked on the NPC website for exact wording, but I couldn't find it.
Here was the kind of thing I was talking about: say you're KKG which has the strictest "facilities" policy. You're at a small school with DKE, Kappa Sig, Sig Ep and LXA, none of which are nationally or chapter-ly dry. Guess what? You're SOL. You can't have mixers, dry or not, period. Meanwhile the other sororities are skipping off to mixers. And are they really going to shoot themselves in the foot to help you out? I'm sorry, but I just don't see how anyone can think that is fair. Do any members of the national orgs that do have the stricter policy know why they decided to pass it this way?
If this has to be done, there should be one policy - functions. And everyone should have implemented it the same time, not "you have to do it by so & so date." I don't think NPC as a whole sat down and fleshed this out enough or educated the collegians enough. If so, why would we have people coming on this board and saying they don't understand their alcohol policy? If it took 4 years to do properly, it took four years. It just seems to me like this whole thing was rushed. I'm sure the behind the scenes talk has been going on for several years. What I have an issue with is the swiftness of the implementation with the collegians.
[This message has been edited by 33girl (edited February 05, 2001).]
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