Sororities NOT upholding Alcoholess Mixing

[33girl]

JadeSea, I think you are missing a couple very important points here.

1. The rules put in place by panhel were decided by A VERY SMALL FRACTION of its members. As the earlier posts in this thread stated, some groups put this issue before collegians for a vote, but many did not. In my GLO's case, the issue was decided by our national council - there was no vote. In effect, seven women made a very important decision for our approximately 4,000 collegiate members without proper representation or input. Does that sound fair to you?

2. My main gripe against third party restrictions has nothing to do with being prudish or responsible...it has to do with FINANCE. What it boils down to is saying "if you have money, you can drink and have off-site mixers. If you don't, you can't." I thought we were making progress past sororities and fraternities being for the rich only. This is pushing us back to that old mindset.

You did hit the nail on the head with one point: this is all about image. These rules weren't established to further the health, safety or well-being of the collegians. If so, we'd have programs advocating responsible drinking and disciplining/helping those who don't, not just pushing the problem out of the houses and onto the liability policies of the bar and club owners.