Drinking in Letters . .. Damned either way?

[Kevin]

Sloppy drunk aside... It's still an issue of PR. The culture here in the Bible Belt may be different from you cEEty folk..

From my point of view, we still suffer from a very puritanical approach to this.

To address the issue of the brothers in my house that found otherwise once they joined... They were first open to the idea of our group because we were the only one that they thought wouldn't think strangely of them if they chose not to drink. One brother in particular stresses during recruitment with certain guys that he'll be the one at our parties bonging Dr. Thunder. For some, this approach is very positive.

Otherwise, it's just an image thing. If they see you drinking and that's all they see you do (because you do it in a public, conspicuous place) than that must be all that you ever do, right? A lot of folks think that way and we can't be blind to that.

My school in particular is also dry. A picture of a guy in his letters with a beer in his hand could get us all in serious trouble since my school consideres 3+ people to be an organization sponsored event (but please don't factor this into my argument, it's our situation and doesn't really factor into the overall situation).

At any rate, it's a decision for each chapter to make based on what their individual conditions are. For my chapter it would certainly not be a good thing to drink in public in our letters.. For others, it's simply promoting Greek Life. Who am I to say if it's right or wrong for someone else?