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"My son was invited to a fraternity house Monday night where he was offered a beer and witnessed alcoholic beverages being consumed," one parent said in an e-mail. "I thought you might want to know this and warn these kids to be careful in how they conduct themselves."
This comment from a parent email to Greek Life made me laugh. Sure, I guess the guy shouldn't have been offered a beer, but the other part about witnessing alcohol being consumed at a fraternity house hardly seems worthy of comment. And it amuses me more that the parent thought it was something to react to than it probably should. I hope the kid doesn't go to the Georgia-Florida game for goodness sake.
As far as the probation, it does seem kind of light, but I'd guess unless the university wanted to make an example of them because this girl got hurt, the people deciding the case had to know that this is pretty run of the mill behavior. And lets be honest, it probably is. College kids drink underage. College guys will serve drinks to under-aged girls. It would probably be really hard to come down hard in the case knowing that you would either turn a blind eye to all the other groups doing the same thing OR take on some obligation for supervising or policing more closely.
The other factor is that Sigma Chi probably hasn't been in even a smidgen of trouble since they came back onto campus. (I'm not sure what year, but they were off campus the entire time I was at UGA.) The university probably has a system that builds based on the number of offenses.
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