Summer fraternity parties and enforcement of rules

[VandalSquirrel]

If these parties include freshmen men who are rushing in the fall/summer, and there is alcohol, I'd be extremely careful in regards to risk management if any of these incoming students are under 18.

As regular students fully matriculated and initiated members, I'd err on the side of caution since no one wants to end up as a feature story in this forum. Insurance doesn't care if school is in session or not if the name of the organization is being used and contracts are being signed.

[33girl]

Are you worried about the risk management issues or the standards issues?

Are they having actual mixers (i.e. members of only one sorority are present) or are they just inviting whatever sorority girls are around? I mean, if a Kappa, ASA and ZTA are at a party and one of them does something that's questionable RM-wise or standards wise, how on earth would you bring that up in front of standards board? I certainly don't think we're going to start taking the word of other groups when it comes to things like that.

[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.