The Alcohol Thing - again....

[James]

You might want to define the parameters of what you are suggesting Brad.

For example, do you mean that at any time someone is seen by a Fraternity member to be drinking underage that person should go before the judicial board and be expelled? By the way, that is the only way for that to work.

Its like execution, for it to work as a deterrant you need to execute automatically for certain offenses.

Following this train of logic, you would also have to place chapter officers and chapter members at risk. Basicially, if they don't report someone underage drinking for expulsion, they would have to face that penalty themselves. Maybe institute an award system for people to turn their brothers in, otherwise people will only turn on the less popular brother.

Doing the above would probably result in both a sharp decrease in overall numbers as well as a shift in the population base that you are drawing from. The Fraternity would probably lose a lot of the mainstream students and start picking up more of the students that would normally opt for Circle-K and Christian Groups.

Another easy solution would be to forbid membership to those under 21.

But anyway, we would need more information on where you are headed Brad, for us to provide more constructive opinions.

Semper

James