Amanda,
I think they are trying to make an example at Penn State because of that chick who went on the disastrous bar tour last year (and as we all know, she wasn't even Greek). Alcohol is a CAMPUS problem, not a GREEK problem. I've partied up there enough to know that students are not going to stop drinking, doing bar tours, etc.
You make the fratenities and sororities dry, and it (a) drives the Greeks off campus for 3rd party vendor parties, thus cutting off social options for independents & locals & increasing town/gown animosity, and (b) people get blotto in dorms or off campus beforehand, thereby increasing binge drinking and drunk driving. So what has really been accomplished? Absolutely nothing.
And the increase you would have to have in dues - God, I'm not even going there.
I wonder how many of the people pushing this drank when they were 18 (let alone smoked a doobie or 2)? Hypocrisy sucks.
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