Barking up the wrong tree

[James]

You are not going to change the culture of this country away from drinking any time soon.

Greeks are going to be continued to be singled out by universities as problems because when Greeks are punished it makes the school look tough on alcohol as well as taking attention away from the rest of the student population.

New general policies are not going to help you. The policies already in place are more than adequate, just unenforced. It is ilegal to drink underage. It is against university policy to drink undeage. It is against fraternal policy to serve those underage.

If we keep trying to bring administrative censure to a social situation we are going to fail as we have been failing all these past years.

Plus its an impossible argument to win, it just become circular.

But we can try and protect our groups from liability.

To do this we need to face up to some of our tendencies.

Problem One: is that we almost always develop policies "in House".

We form focus groups of volunteer alums and some undergraduates to examine serious problems such as liability.

What does that really mean? We take from a limited population, our general membership, then draw from even a smaller population, our alumni volunteers, and often ask them to come up with programs and policies that cover sophisticated issues that often require specialty knowledge.

Solution 1: Hiring Risk Analysis Experts to help with out policies.