Well as to the story, the idea of an "unprovoked attack" seems unlikely. If the guy was just jumped then I guess thats the case, but in my experience that doesn't happen. It never ceases to amaze me that a couple of guys will walk into a fraternity party and start problems, or when asked to leave will create a situation. This happens occassionally at our house, usually ending with some girls finally convincing them to leave...and in doing so saving them from a fight they would surely lose.
As for what works to prevent fights, our school requires security guards to be hired for band parties, and usually they just toss the guys into the street before anything happens. They also help us restrain brothers, which is useful. However, at a fraternity we get along with next door, this guy had hit a girl, and the fraternity had roughed him up pretty good. The cops showed up and said "well, we can either try and press charges, but nothing will probably happen, or we can just leave you to handle it." I thought that was pretty funny.
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