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The effects of alcohol on the human body are well known, and have been well known for probably 100 years. It does not take a genius to figure out that if you drink yourself into a stupor, you could seriously injure yourself, or someone else. Yes, alcohol education programs are important, and we need to have them. Perhaps we can all squeeze one in before the next formal, or weekend kegger?
Education only gets us so far, especially in a culture where people are encouraged to make bad choices. The problem with many greeks is that we support and enable this culture. No, the problem did not begin with us, and will not end with us either, but we are clearly part of the problem, and we are destroying ourselves.
At a minimum, alcohol needs to be removed from chapter houses and chapter sponsored events. Fair or not, the drinking age is 21, and most of our members cannot drink legally. But mostly, the greeks need to change their culture around alcohol, and their view that it is a necessity for their existence. If all we feel we can offer incoming freshman is access to illegal alcohol, and that's all we think they are interested in, we are all in deep sh-t.
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