Summer fraternity parties and enforcement of rules

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Originally Posted by BlueCarnation

This may be different from campus to campus, or organization to organization, but I'm curious as to how/if your campuses enforce risk management rules during the summer? We have summer classes and there are men living in fraternity houses, but all sorority houses are closed. There are some fraternities that are having organized parties (they are renting out 3rd party vendors, renting buses, etc.) and inviting sorority members to them. Would you treat them as you would during the regular school year? Would they be subject to the same rules of registration, monitoring, etc.?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by BlueCarnation

I'm worried about risk management issues. A fraternity is having a party and inviting sorority members from various chapters, and hoping that "lots of girls" from our chapter are there. This fraternity is probably going to be on social probation in the fall for a similar party last year, so if it were the fall, there would be no question that they should not be having this party and that no one from our chapter should go. I know how I feel as an advisor about whether anyone from our chapter should go. I was just curious about other's takes on this and how summer is viewed on other campuses.

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, you can advise them not to go. But without a quorum of the chapter there to vote on it and/or to give them due process if they are called before standards board for violations, there's really no way you can enforce it. They're going as individuals, not as a chapter.

You may have a bylaw that says they can't attend fraternity houses that are on probation, but "probably going to be" is not the same thing.

I am not sure what are the risk management issues are here. From what I can tell, it seems like the fraternity is inviting individual members and not chapters. And from what was written earlier, it does sound like the fraternity is following some kind of risk management guideline with respect to the party. (i.e. third party vendors, bus etc.)

Is there a possibility that the individuals that attend might have to answer to the University (or standards) simply by attending? Perhaps because the fraternity *might* be put on social probation in the fall? If all is on the up-and-up (again, third party vendors, buses, no under aged drinking etc.), then I am not seeing the issue.